A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation

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Autor(a) principal: Chinita, Fátima
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/13990
Resumo: ABSTRACT - This article equates the multidimensional artistic form of Argentine tango (dance, music and song) with the innately hybrid form of film. It compares Argentine tango culture to the height of French cinephilia in the 1950s Paris, France, arguing that they are both passionate, erotic and nostalgic ways of life. In Carlos Saura’s Tango (1998) and Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson (1997), the intertwining of the related skills of tango practice and filmmaking are an audio-visual treat for the senses and a cognitive challenge for the mind. Their self-reflexivity promotes excess and the result is a highly expressive and complex form. They evince a cross-fertilization of reality and fiction, of art and life, typical of a perfect mise en abyme as described by Christian Metz. These films are also art musicals, although they depart from the Hollywood musical conventions. Yet, one cannot speak in their case of intermedia reflexivity, according to Petr Szczepanik’s definition, because both of them retain their qualities in a symbiotic relationship of likeness that highlights their mutual aura.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
title A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
spellingShingle A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
Chinita, Fátima
Argentine tango
Meta-cinema
Self-reflexivity
Hybridity
Intermediality
Cinephilia
title_short A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
title_full A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
title_fullStr A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
title_full_unstemmed A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
title_sort A tale of sound and fury signifying everything: Argentine tango dance films as complex self-reflexive creation
author Chinita, Fátima
author_facet Chinita, Fátima
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Chinita, Fátima
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Argentine tango
Meta-cinema
Self-reflexivity
Hybridity
Intermediality
Cinephilia
topic Argentine tango
Meta-cinema
Self-reflexivity
Hybridity
Intermediality
Cinephilia
description ABSTRACT - This article equates the multidimensional artistic form of Argentine tango (dance, music and song) with the innately hybrid form of film. It compares Argentine tango culture to the height of French cinephilia in the 1950s Paris, France, arguing that they are both passionate, erotic and nostalgic ways of life. In Carlos Saura’s Tango (1998) and Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson (1997), the intertwining of the related skills of tango practice and filmmaking are an audio-visual treat for the senses and a cognitive challenge for the mind. Their self-reflexivity promotes excess and the result is a highly expressive and complex form. They evince a cross-fertilization of reality and fiction, of art and life, typical of a perfect mise en abyme as described by Christian Metz. These films are also art musicals, although they depart from the Hollywood musical conventions. Yet, one cannot speak in their case of intermedia reflexivity, according to Petr Szczepanik’s definition, because both of them retain their qualities in a symbiotic relationship of likeness that highlights their mutual aura.
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