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 Âé¶¹´«Ã½ 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.
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)
MULTI-MEDIA / WEB-DOC
Expo 67: Canada Welcomes the World, June 2017.
Co-produced with Juan Andrés Bello – Triana Media.