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#132 The Intellectual in Anguish: Modernist Form and Ideology in Land in Anguish and Memories of Underdevelopment

By Julianne Burton

Abstract

This paper compares form, content, and context in two major Latin American feature films--Land in Anguish/Terra em Transe (Brazil, 1967) and Memories of Underdevelopment/Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Cuba, 1968)--placing particular emphasis on three sets of interrelationships: between these specific cinematic representations of the Latin American artist-intellectual; self-reflexivity of style and stance; and ideology as an historical and historicizing concept.

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