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“Digital Aesthetics and Notions of Identity in Contemporary Bolivian Filmmaking” “Estéticas digitales y nociones de identidad en el cine boliviano contemporáneo”

Lacunza, Mariana A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325178598

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
Digital Aesthetic and Notions of Identity in Contemporary Bolivian Filmmaking examines two related issues: on one hand, the emergence of new aesthetic currents made possible by the specific properties of digital formats; on the other, the emergence of new forms of distribution and exhibition. By comparing two different groups of digital films (those made by a new generation of young globally-recognized directors that stand for an auteur cinema in Bolivia, and those made by marginal communities in collaboration with the collective group TAFA that works outside the limits of the official film industry), I explore how digital technologies have been the driving force behind the flowering of the Bolivian film industry (traditionally seen as a minor industry even across Latin America) and the means by which Bolivian filmmakers engage with local, national and international issues and dynamics in innovative ways. My study also examines larger theoretical questions about how digital technologies are helping to reformulate national identity within the context of the Evo Morales administration and enhance the performance of cultural citizenship. My work has also important implications for debates within the discipline of film studies– particularly in terms of the democratizing potential of digital technologies. In surveying the transformative effect of digital technologies on Bolivian filmmaking and community-based politics, my dissertation questions the hypothesis of some critics that the so-called “digital revolution” would remain circumscribed to a tiny sphere of more wealthy individuals and nations.
Laura Podalsky, PhD (Advisor)
Fernando Unzueta, PhD (Committee Member)
Richard Gordon, PhD (Committee Member)
230 p.
Latin American Studies
bolivian film; Latin American digital aesthetics; Latin American digital film; young auteur cinema; TAFA; Manifiesto 3b&180; s; indigenous community films, afro bolivian films; cultural citizenship; national identity; alternative subjectivities

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  • Lacunza, M. A. (2011). “Digital Aesthetics and Notions of Identity in Contemporary Bolivian Filmmaking” “Estéticas digitales y nociones de identidad en el cine boliviano contemporáneo” [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325178598

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lacunza, Mariana. “Digital Aesthetics and Notions of Identity in Contemporary Bolivian Filmmaking” “Estéticas digitales y nociones de identidad en el cine boliviano contemporáneo”. 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325178598.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lacunza, Mariana. "“Digital Aesthetics and Notions of Identity in Contemporary Bolivian Filmmaking” “Estéticas digitales y nociones de identidad en el cine boliviano contemporáneo”." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325178598

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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