Carolina Rocha Livres

The book delves into how contemporary Argentine cinema portrays masculinities and explores the social constructs of gender within this context. It also addresses the impact of Argentina's shift to a neo-liberal economic model in the 1990s on the financing of domestic film production, highlighting the intersection of culture and economics in shaping representations of identity.

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, concentrating on the historical film genre and the gauchesque. This cultural history investigates the way Argentine cinema positioned itself when facing the competition of American films.