Constanza Burucúa

Professor

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

Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, March 2018.

BOOKS

The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas. New York, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. (Co-edited volume with Carolina Sitnisky). 305p.

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

ARTICLES

“Lita Stantic: ‘The Personal Is Political’ Is Professional”, in D. Mourenza and M. Vohnsen (eds), Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers. Palgrave McMillan (Forthcoming, 2023).

“La presencia del cine latinoamericano en TIFF (1976-2016): datos en contexto”, in A. Rosas Mantecón and L. González (eds), Cines latinoamericanos en circulación: en busca del público perdido. Universidad Autónoma de Metropolitana & Juan Pablos Editor, Mexico: 2020, 137-156.

Premio de Ensayo sobre Cine en América Latina y el Caribe 2019 [the book was awarded the Prize Essay on Cinema of Latin America and the Caribbean 2019], organized by the Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Cuba. December 2019.

Introduction: Forms of the Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas”, in C. Burucúa and C. Sitnisky (eds.), The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas. New York, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 1-15.

“Showcasing the Precarious: Paraguayan Images in the Film Festival Circuit”, in C. Burucúa and C. Sitnisky (eds.), The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas. New York, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 247-265.

“Young women at the margins: discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig Hoogesteijn”, in D. Shaw and D. Martin (eds.), Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics. London: IB Tauris. 2017. 172-193.

“Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer / Producer of Auteurs”, in B. Urraca and G. Kramer (eds.), Directory of World Cinema: Argentina, Vol. II. Bristol: Intellect. 2016. 24-28.

“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.