Efecto eco: Espacio de producción y consumo cultural en la Argentina post default
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Hortiguera, Hugo
Favoretto, Mara
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2011
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According to official reports of gender violence in Argentina, about 180 women per year, on an average, have been assassinated just in the Province of Buenos Aires alone, in the period 1997-2003 (Cisneros, Chejter y Kohan). Current studies show that every three days a woman has been the victim of violent crimes in 2008 (Molina). It is particularly striking how the Argentine media broadcast these cases and the effect they have in the most recent popular culture production (literary and TV fiction, and music production). In effect, in the field of popular culture, this phenomenon is accompanied by two specific rhetorical devices ...
View more >According to official reports of gender violence in Argentina, about 180 women per year, on an average, have been assassinated just in the Province of Buenos Aires alone, in the period 1997-2003 (Cisneros, Chejter y Kohan). Current studies show that every three days a woman has been the victim of violent crimes in 2008 (Molina). It is particularly striking how the Argentine media broadcast these cases and the effect they have in the most recent popular culture production (literary and TV fiction, and music production). In effect, in the field of popular culture, this phenomenon is accompanied by two specific rhetorical devices that seem to have flooded much of the current discursive domain: repetition and hyperbole. Both figures of speech increase the discourse and expand it without assignable limits, linking the different parts of culture in innovative ways. They reveal -in its dynamics- not only explicit and deceptive masking of reality, with degrees of uncertainty, but also particular consumption patterns. Within the theoretical findings of Silverstone, van Dijk, Alabarces and Svampa, this paper proposes an approach to how the "area of production" (Wolton) has been participating in the social space through the stimulation and appropriation of certain "cultural fictions", of certain specific patterns of thought, behaviour and actions relating to violence against women in the Argentina post-default (2001). Starting with references to specific cases of investigative journalism about crimes against women published in Buenos Aires since 2002, it analyses the effects that this prolific discursive production has provoked in the plots of many fictional television programs, novels and popular music, particularly in the so-called "cumbia villera".
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View more >According to official reports of gender violence in Argentina, about 180 women per year, on an average, have been assassinated just in the Province of Buenos Aires alone, in the period 1997-2003 (Cisneros, Chejter y Kohan). Current studies show that every three days a woman has been the victim of violent crimes in 2008 (Molina). It is particularly striking how the Argentine media broadcast these cases and the effect they have in the most recent popular culture production (literary and TV fiction, and music production). In effect, in the field of popular culture, this phenomenon is accompanied by two specific rhetorical devices that seem to have flooded much of the current discursive domain: repetition and hyperbole. Both figures of speech increase the discourse and expand it without assignable limits, linking the different parts of culture in innovative ways. They reveal -in its dynamics- not only explicit and deceptive masking of reality, with degrees of uncertainty, but also particular consumption patterns. Within the theoretical findings of Silverstone, van Dijk, Alabarces and Svampa, this paper proposes an approach to how the "area of production" (Wolton) has been participating in the social space through the stimulation and appropriation of certain "cultural fictions", of certain specific patterns of thought, behaviour and actions relating to violence against women in the Argentina post-default (2001). Starting with references to specific cases of investigative journalism about crimes against women published in Buenos Aires since 2002, it analyses the effects that this prolific discursive production has provoked in the plots of many fictional television programs, novels and popular music, particularly in the so-called "cumbia villera".
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Hipertexto
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14
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Subject
Globalisation and Culture