Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema

by Ben Bollig

From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the Spanish language. What happens when its film and poetry meet on screen? Moving Verses studies the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. Although both the "poetics of cinema" and literary adaptation have become established...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800859783
• ISBN13: 9781800859784
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 10.3"