By: Sarah Mason, Sales Intern
David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish
and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of Contemporary Argentine Cinema and Violence in Argentine Literature, is our latest author spotlight!
Which
of your books/essays did you enjoy researching for the most? Why?
Contemporary Argentine Cinema, because of the sociopolitical issues associated with the
return to constitutional democracy in Argentina in 1983 represented by the
films.
What
inspired you to consider studying Latin America/Spanish?
Some
of the best things in life happen by chance. I was fortunate enough to part of
one of the first junior high school Spanish programs in the country (Seattle)
and then fell in with a group of Latin American studies at the University of
Washington, finally ending up, at the age of 26, as a Fulbright professor in
Argentina. The rest, as they say, is history.
What
is your favorite Latin American city you’ve visited? Why?
Buenos
Aires: I have spent almost 50 years researching and teaching in that city, one
of the great cultural capitals of Latin America and a very easy city to
negotiate.
What
is your favorite Argentine film, and why?
Historia Oficial, which won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 1985. While it has
many ideological problems, it brought together an important segment of the
Argentine cultural community to produce a film that confronted one of the worst
aspects of the so-called Dirty War of the neofacist tyranny, 1976-83, the
trafficking in children in programs of spurious adoptions.
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