Al margen del tiempo

Deseos, ritmos y atmósferas en el cine argentino

Abstract

Al margen del tiempo. Deseos, ritmos y atmósferas en el cine argentino [Outside time. Desires, rhythms and atmospheres in argentine cinema] of Julia Kratje has two possible starting points: 1) the political and academic need to reflect upon the way in which time is unequally experienced according to social class and gender; 2) the conjecture that some argentine films disrupt androcentric regimes of visibility through the staging of other uses of time, where it appears the possibility of leisure time and pleasure. The general purpose of the book is to explore some of the aesthetic principles of argentine contemporary cinema, its way of proposing other territorialities, other temporalities, other manners of affection and, thus, other bonds. If the heteronormative, patriarchal, capitalist order expects to impose a homogeneous rhythm to all of the bodies, Kratje proposes to see leisure not as the complement of this imposed, unique rhythm but as a way of resistance that would potentially create some autonomy.