Constanza Burucúa

Burucua,-ConstanzaNEW1.jpgAssociate Professor, Graduate Chair, Hispanic Studies

Ph.D. University of Warwick, UK
Office: UC 4309
Extension: 80496
Email: cburucua@uwo.ca

Areas of Interest and Research

  • Latin American and Argentine cinemas
  • Film history; historical representations; film and historiography
  • Women's cinema and questions of gender representation
  • Documentary cinema- theoretical and critical approaches
  • Documentary filmmaking- researcher and producer

Publications, Presentations, and Awards

BOOKS

Confronting the Dirty War in Argentine Cinema, 1983-1993.Memory and Gender in Historical Representations. London: Tamesis Books, 2009. 231p.

ARTICLES

“Identidad, crisis y reevaluación de la historia: Ricardo Darín en El secreto de sus ojos y Un cuento chino”. Imagofagia, 10 (Journal published by ASAECA - Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual, ISSN 1852 – 9550), January 2015.

“La novia niña y la niña de la calle: Venezuela en la mirada de Solveig Hoogesteijn”, in M. Copartari and C. Sitnisky (eds.), El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenio. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2015. 99-114.

“From dark to light and the in-between penumbrae: Buenos Aires in the cinema of the transition to democracy” (28-29), and reviews of En retirada (44-45), La historia oficial (52-53) and Sur (54-55) in M. Pigott and S. Oyarzabal (eds.), World Film Locations: Buenos Aires. Bristol: Intellect, 2014.

“Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer / Producer of Auteurs”, in A. Spicer, A.T. McKenna, C. Meir (eds.), Beyond the Bottom-Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies. London: Continuum, 2014. 215-228.

“La historia argentina va a los Oscar. Los discursos históricos premiados por Hollywood”, in R. Marafiotti (ed.), Signos En El Tiempo. Cine, Historia y Discurso. Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2013. 57-66.


DOCUMENTARIES

Villanueva, el Diablo (2012) (producer)

La reina del pueblo (2010) (researcher and producer)

Reverón, el espectáculo del genio (2009) (researcher and producer)

El Cerrito (2006) (researcher and producer)