A Trail of Fire for a Political Cinema. The Hour of the Furnaces fifty years later

CAMPO, JAVIER Y PÉREZ BLANCO, HUMBERTO

Intellect

Lugar: Bristol; Año: 2019 p. 266

9781783209163

Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of theFurnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), ATrail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closelyanalyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of1960s Argentina, as well as the film?s legacy and contemporary relevance. Attentionis paid to the corpus of political documentaries made between 1968 to 1976, includingthose that marked the last coup d?état in Argentina, to emphasize how formaland thematic trends relate to their Argentinian social context. In order tohighlight The Hour of the Furnaces?scontemporary relevance as a form of politically engaged activism, the book willalso look at Fernando Solanas?s documentary output in the twenty-first century.