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  4. Film Studies: National Cinemas
  5. Argentina

Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
  • Introduction
  • Streaming services
  • Afghanistan
  • Africa (General)
    • Africa, Northern
    • Africa, French speaking
    • Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
  • Chile
  • Chinese cinema
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechia (Czech Republic)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong cinema
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indigenous films
  • Irish cinema
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
    • Egypt
    • Iran
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  • New Zealand
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  • Poland
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  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
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  • United States
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  • Journals & magazines about film

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Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoArgentine cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Jessica Stites Mor, Nicolas Poppe
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    The field of Argentine cinema studies can be said to have begun in earnest with the publication of film journalist Domingo Di Núbila’s landmark two-volume history of Argentina’s film history in 1959 and 1960, Historia del cine argentino (Buenos Aires: Cruz de Malta). A work of tremendous range and scope, Di Núbila’s history not only provided a synopsis and critique of an abundance of individual films but also examined the influence of professional associations and industry, more broadly speaking.
  • Resource logoDigitalia film library. Argentina cinema
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    A collection of select Argentine films.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for a national or regional cinema? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

Find new items in the library's collections

Find new items on Argentine cinema in the library catalog.

Introduction to Argentinian cinema

Notwithstanding its turbulent history Argentina’s film industry, alongside those of Brazil and Mexico, has been among the most robust in Latin America. Moving images were first seen in Argentina at a screening of the Lumière Cinématographe in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1896. There was a large and cosmopolitan potential audience for films, and local filmmakers soon began producing newsreels, documentaries, and vignettes of local scenes. An early—possibly the earliest—Argentine feature film was a historical epic, El fusilamiento de Dorrego/The Execution of Dorrego (1910); while an early commercial success, and the first of many popular gaucho films, Nobleza gaucha/Gaucho Nobility, appeared in 1915. The most celebrated director of Argentina’s silent period was José Agustín Ferreyra (‘El Negro’), whose films were set in the suburbs and city of Buenos Aires, and highlighted the lives of the poor.  ...

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Argentina, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 May. 2021

Searching the online catalog

This page is a library guide to the cinema of Argentina. You can use the subject headings below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number ranges are also included. You can do the same subject search for other countries in South America using the same format, "motion pictures [insert country]."

Please note: these are not the only call numbers, but they have the majority of items. These searches will also lead you to movie titles.

  • motion pictures argentina
    Call number range PN 1993.5 .A7 on Baker Stacks Level 4.
  • motion pictures argentina history
  • argentina in motion pictures
  • motion pictures and literature argentina
  • motion picture producers and directors argentina
  • motion pictures latin america
    Call number range PN 1993.5 .L3 on Baker Stacks Level 4.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artArgentina by Beatriz Urraca; Gary M. Kramer, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 A73 2014
    ISBN: 9781783200078
    Argentina boasts one of the most popular, diverse, and successful film industries in Latin America. From early films about gauchos and the tango to human rights dramas and groundbreaking experimental documentaries, Argentina s cinematic output has achieved both global influence and international acclaim.
  • Cover artHistorias extraordinarias: nuevo cine argentino, 1999-2008 by Jaime Pena, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9788496576971
    El cine argentino está viviendo uno de los mejores momentos de su historia gracias a una nómina muy amplia de cineastas cuyas carreras arrancan entre finales del pasado siglo y comienzos de este.
  • Cover artNew Argentine cinema by Jens Andermann
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 A53 2012
    ISBN: 9781848854635
    Argentine film-making from the mid-1990s to the present has enjoyed worldwide success. New Argentine Cinema explores this cinema in order to discover the elements that have made for this success, in relation to the country's profound political, social, and cultural crisis during the same period.
  • Cover artPicturing Argentina: myths, movies, and the Peronist vision by Currie Kerr Thompson
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .P38 T48 2014
    ISBN: 9781604978797
    Although Juan Domingo Peron's central role in Argentine history and the need for an unbiased assessment of his impact on his nation's cinema are beyond dispute, the existing scholarship on the subject is limited. In recent decades Argentina has witnessed a revival of serious film study, some of which has focused on the nation's classical movies and, in one case, on Peronism.
  • Cover artSouth American cinema: a critical filmography, 1915-1994 by Timothy Barnard; Peter Rist, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .S63 S68 1998
    ISBN: 9780292708716
    A distinguished team of contributors has compiled entries on 140 significant South American feature films from the silent era until 1994. The entries discuss each film's subject matter, critical reception, and social and political contexts, as well as its production, distribution, and exhibition history, including technical credits. The entries are grouped by country and arranged chronologically. Both fiction and documentary films (some no longer in existence) are included, as well as extensive title, name, and subject indexes and glossaries of film and foreign terms.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artChe, qué bueno que vinisteis: el cine argentino que cruzó el charco by Juan Carlos González Acevedo
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 2451 .G66 2005
    ISBN: 9788493399726
  • Cover artConfronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine cinema, 1983-1993: memory and gender in historical representations by Constanza Burucúa
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 B875 2009
    ISBN: 9781855661806
    The systematic illegal persecution and annihilation of political opponents of the 1979-1983 Argentine military dictatorship, commonly known today as the "Dirty War", became one of the main themes of the nation's cinema after the regime's fall.
  • Cover artEl país del cine: para una historia política del nuevo cine argentino by Nicolás Prividera
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 P75 2014
    ISBN: 9789874502315
  • Cover artThe film industry in Argentina: an illustrated cultural history by Jorge Finkielman
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 F56 2004
    ISBN: 9780786416288
    Argentina fell in love with movies as soon as they were first exhibited in 1896. Even before World War I, Argentina was one of the biggest film markets in the world and continues to be a major film market today. This history of the Argentine film industry--starting with the earliest film exhibitions in 1897--covers film music, broadcasting, the introduction of film with sound, the impact of the American film industry on the Argentine, the industrialization of Argentine film, Hollywood films in Spanish, the tango in film and local stars. ...
  • Cover artMasculinities in contemporary Argentine popular cinema by Carolina Rocha
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .M46 R63 2012
    ISBN: 9780230338180
    Interdisciplinary and engaging, Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema is the first scholarly work to link visual representations of heterosexual masculinities to the neo-liberal transformations in Argentina.
  • Cover artOther worlds: new Argentinean film by Gonzalo Aguilar
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 A5813 2008
    ISBN: 9780230606593
    Respected film critic Gonzalo Aguilar offers a lucid and sophisticated analysis of Argentine films of the last decade. This is the most complete and up-to-date work in English to examine the 'new Argentine cinema' phenomenon. Aguilar looks at highly relevant films, including those by Lucrecia Martel and Sergio Rejtman.

Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)

Articles and other writings about Argentine films can be found in many publications. Our collection includes one journal which looks exclusively at Argentine cinema and several other journals which look at Spanish language films. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • El Amante: cine by Della Fonte Vecchia
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993 .A435
  • Kilómetro 111: ensayos sobre cine
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A7 K55
  • Issue cover artStudies in Spanish & Latin American cinemas by Intellect
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    This peer-reviewed journal explores the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South, Central and North America, including the Caribbean and Brazil.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about Argentine cinema.
  • Resource logoHAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) online by UCLA
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    HAPI is a source for worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, with coverage from 1970 to the present.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Selected movie titles

Find more Argentinian films in the online catalog.

  • Cover artCeremonias de barro: la historia de un pueblo by Nicolás Di Giusto
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15059
    Candelario Gerónimo, a 79-year old Diaguita Indian, lives in the Tucumán Province in northwestern Argentina, and reflects on his life, the soon-to-be lost traditions of the Quilmes people, and the fight to reclaim their land.
  • Cover artDe caravana by Rosendo Ruiz
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15025
    In Cordoba to take a picture of La Mona Jiménez, Juan Cruz meets and falls in love with Sara and discovers another world of adventures.
  • Cover artEl arreglo by Fernando Ayala
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #19402
    In a suburb of Buenos Aires, construction is underway to pipe in water. Unfortunately, only some of the inhabitants will benefit; the rest will be forced to continue relying on their worn-out pumps that constantly break down. The neighbors decide they will bribe the overseerer of the project; only housepainter Luis Bellamo refuses to go along with the plan, arguing that honesty is the greater good.
  • Cover artJauja by Lisandro Alonso
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #18879
    Captain Dinesen takes a job with the Argentine army and brings his fifteen-year-old daughter, Ingeborg, along. Being the only female in the area, she causes quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together. When Dinesen realizes what happened, he decides to venture into enemy territory to find them.
  • Cover artLiverpool by Lisandro Alonso
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10524
    A man employed on a massive cargo ship requests shore leave to visit his sickly mother, who lives in a remote logging town in Tierra del Fuego. He depends on booze and the unkindness of strangers to make the grueling journey southward, hinting at unspeakable tragedies beneath the surface.
  • Cover artPara vestir santos by Leopoldo Torres Nilsson
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14654
    A drama about "spinsters."

Internet resource(s)

  • Buenos Aires Film Commission
    • Link
    El Centro de promoción para la Industria Audiovisual de la Ciudad.
  • Cine Nacional
    • Link
  • Five Faces of Contemporary Argentine Cinema from The Culture Trip
    • Link
    Argentinian film production was severely curtailed under the 1970s military junta. More recently, the directors associated with the New Argentine Cinema have propelled the national cinema back into the spotlight. ...
  • Latin American Studies (Spanish): Cinema
    • Link
    Jill Baron, the Spanish Language librarian, has put together resources under the Latin America LibGuide.
  • The Museum of the Moving Image Celebrates Argentine Animation with a Special Film Series from Cinema Tropical
    • Link
    The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the series ‘The Many Wonderful Lives of Argentine Animation’ to take place November 2 - 4, guest curated by journalist and programmer Juan Manuel Dominguez, to celebrate the vitality and legacy of Argentine animation. ...
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