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artículos by Javier Cossalter
Millcayac - Revista Digital de Ciencias Sociales, 2025
The porpuse of this article is to analyze the aesthetic and enunciative strategies that the comedian Pablo Molinari uses on his YouTube channel, particularly in the segment “Perdón, Centennials.” In this, objects, practices and products from past decades are revisited through a nostalgic perspective and the use of archival images. From this case study we seek to reflect on the productivity of the convergence between old and new media in the enhancement of cultural artifacts from the past, the primacy of hypermedia and the active participation of the prosumer in the development and propagation of audiovisual content within the contemporary media ecosystem.
Cossalter, Javier (2025), “Convergencia mediática, participación de la audiencia y revalorización del pasado cultural en los hipermedios: YouTube y el producto audiovisual de Pablo Molinari ‘Perdón, Centennials’”. Millcayac - Revista Digital de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, ISSN 2362-616x, Vol. 12, nº 22, pp. 1-24.
Cuadernos de Historia del Arte, 2025
The objective of this article is to explore the audiovisual productions and the implications in the communication and entertainment field of the Argentine YouTube channel Navaja Crimen. This emerges in a context of convergence where archive images from different media are reused, although it also stands out for some features that deviate from the new canon established in the contemporary media map. In this sense, positioned from an approach focused on the media ecology and the culture of convergence, the aim is to examine the uses of archives of diverse origins and their narrative and aesthetic significance in creative audiovisual products that, based on resources such as montage, voice over and intertitles revisit local and foreign series, films and programs from the recent past. Through this case analysis we attempt to reflect on the potential of the archive effect in digital media in the era of convergence.
Cossalter, Javier (2025), “La productividad de las imágenes de archivo en el ecosistema mediático contemporáneo: cultura de la convergencia y metarreflexividad en el canal de YouTube Navaja crimen”. Cuadernos de Historia del Arte, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, ISSN 2618-5555, nº 44, pp. 218-267.
Historia Regional, 2024
The trend of film on arts in Argentina was consolidated within the framework of an alternative and decentralized production, fundamentally promoted by the film schools of national universities and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes; two institutions that emerged in the context of reconversion of the national cultural and cinematographic panorama. In this regard, the objective of this article is to examine the particularities of the modern film on arts in our country in relation to the funding methods and the forms of production, the aesthetic-narrative modalities practiced, the articulation with regional identities and the territorial expansion of audiovisual productive nodes. Thus, the preponderance of the documentary model, the primacy of the short film length, the prevalence of visual art and the connection of art with social problems emerge as characteristic features of this film trend at the local level.
Cossalter, Javier (2024), “El film breve moderno argentino sobre arte. Un enfoque descentralizado acerca de la producción alternativa del Fondo Nacional de las Artes y de las escuelas de cine de universidades nacionales”, Dossier: “Dinamización de la producción audiovisual en las regiones de Argentina”. Historia Regional, Instituto Superior de Profesorado “Eduardo Lafferière”, ISSNe 2469-0732, nº 54, pp. 1-20.
Autoctonía. Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, 2024
The preservation of moving images is a long-standing concern, which began with the creation of the first cinematheques in the 1930s. In Latin America, this phenomenon develops with ups and downs, as a consequence of the absence or lack of application of public policies referring to that cultural sphere. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze the problem of audiovisual preservation in Brazil and Chile based on the trend of the modern film on arts, which due to its characteristics already glimpsed a heritage character in the context of conception of the films. To carry out this work, the role of the entities dedicated to the preservation of national cinema in both countries is examined, along with the role played by the State and by private agents. Then the general qualities of the Brazilian and Chilean trend of film on arts are explored, with the focus of attention on the registration or documentation of national and popular art and culture. Finally, some examples of restoration and digitization are reviewed that show a progressive heritage enhancement of short films on arts in both territories.
Cossalter, Javier (2024), “Problemáticas de la preservación audiovisual en Latinoamérica en el marco de las políticas públicas. Rescate patrimonial del film sobre arte moderno en Brasil y en Chile”. Autoctonía. Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins, e-ISSN 0719-8213, Vol. 8, nº 2, pp. 1232-1266.
ArtCultura: Revista de História, Cultura e Arte, 2023
This article focuses on the trend of film on art in Mexico and Brazil in the course of the modern cinema and the renewal of the cultural field between the 1950s and 1970s. We will begin by exploring the development of modern cinema in the two territories to establish the effectiveness of the short film and the documentary model. Secondly, we will address the tendency of the film on art in both countries in a general way, with the intention of glimpsing its aesthetic, productive and institutional particularities. In the third instance, we will analyze a corpus of short films on art that creatively record exhibitions in an institutional framework, in order to reflect on the aesthetic experimentation of audiovisual products and the enhancement of heritage value of exhibition spaces and the documented works of art.
Cossalter Javier (2023), “Arte, cine y patrimonio: la documentación audiovisual y el registro experimental de exposiciones museísticas en el film breve moderno sobre arte en México y en Brasil”. ArtCultura: Revista de História, Cultura e Arte, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, ISSN: 2178-3845, Vol. 25, nº 47, pp. 161-183.
Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, 2023
This article proposes an initial mapping of the trend of film on art in Argentina, from its first appearances to its splendor stage, with the aim of unraveling its singularities in the course of the cultural and cinematographic modernization that occurred between the mid-1950s and the the mid-1970s, both in the field of production and dissemination, as well as around aesthetic and semantic characters. First, the historical and theoretical keys to this trend in Europe are studied. In second and third place, the antecedents and the context of the rise of this trend in the country are explored. Finally, based on the categories of analysis proposed by Guillermo G. Peydró around the film on art —and other notions of authors dedicated to the study of the links between cinema and the plastic arts— we proceed to examine a wide corpus of modern national short films.
Cossalter, Javier (2023), “El film sobre arte argentino y su auge durante la modernidad cinematográfica. Particularidades históricas, teóricas y estéticas”, en Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ISSN: 1134-6795, nº 57, pp. 27-48.
Dixit, 2022
The rise of the trend of film on art in Latin America occurred between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s, in close contact with the modern cinema and the renewal of the cultural field. Today, based on UNESCO recommendations to safeguard moving images and as a result of the effectiveness of new technologies, there is a process of valuing Latin American short films on art. Thus, the article explores this trend in a comparative manner in Mexico and Chile, with the aim of examining its main characteristics and glimpse the similarities and differences around the patrimonial valuation of the works, both in the moment of their creation and in the present time. For this, we carry out the study of the socio-cultural context of the production of the films and the entities of legitimation, the aesthetic and sociopragmatic analysis of the selected corpus, and the reflection on the contemporary institutional revaluation of film on art, in the framework of public policies related this cultural sector.
Cossalter, Javier (2022), “La patrimonialización del corto documental moderno sobre arte en América Latina. Rescate y revalorización en México y en Chile”, en Dixit, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, ISSN (en línea) 0797-3691, Vol. 36, nº 2, pp. 4-22.
Ñawi: arte, diseño, comunicación, 2022
This article explores the trend of film on art in Cuba after the Revolution, with the purpose of unraveling the aesthetic and political implications of the link between cinema and the visual arts. To do this, after raising the panorama of film on art in Latin America during the modernization of cinema, the post-revolutionary Cuban cultural context is approached to observe the creation of new entities for the promotion and dissemination of innovative artistic and cultural practices. In this sense, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry promoted the making of documentary short films that approached art and local culture from an intermediary and experimental perspective that transcended the simple propaganda tone. Ultimately, we proceed to the textual and pragmatic analysis of two short paradigmatic films, with the interest of elucidating their expressive and communicational features, and establishing the patrimonial nature of these audiovisual productions.
Cossalter, Javier (2022), “Una aproximación a la corriente del film sobre arte en la Cuba posrevolucionaria”, en Ñawi: arte, diseño, comunicación, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litorial (ESPOL), ISSN 2588-0934, Vol. 6, nº 1, pp. 19-39.
AURA. Revista de Historia y Teoría del Arte, 2021
In the contemporary map of confluence of the media, a new network of production, circulation and reception of original audiovisual content is glimpsed. This is the case of the YouTube digital platform. Thus, this article will focus on the study of communicational and aesthetic variables of the Argentine phenomenon Te Lo Resumo Así Nomás, inserted within the YouTube channel Te lo resumo. It is composed of audiovisual reviews that deconstruct films and television series through irony, reiteration, fragmentation, comedy and intertext with popular audiovisual culture. At first, the product will be located within the new media context, taking into account technological advances and exchanges between media. Later, this production will be examined in expressive terms, from the analysis of narrative, montage and staging procedures. Finally, the financing and dissemination strategies used will be explored, as well as the links established with an audience that abandons the passive role to join a participatory culture within the media convergence, with the ultimate objective of unraveling the function of this phenomenon in the field of art and criticism.
Cossalter, Javier (2021), “Entre la cultura participativa y la convergencia mediática. El producto audiovisual argentino de YouTube: Te Lo Resumo Así Nomás”, AURA. Revista de Historia y Teoría del Arte, Universidad Nacional del Centro, ISSN 2347-0135, nº 13, pp. 111-130.
PragMATIZES - Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura, 2020
Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, the Latin American short film produced practically outside the film industry played a fundamental role in film renewal within a general context of dynamism and modernization of the regional cultural field. This article comparatively analyzes a representative corpus of short films from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and Chile during the indicated period, with the purpose of establishing the modern sense of this audiovisual production. To do this, we approach the films based on three closely linked contrast ranges: the hybridization of cinematographic models, the intermediality between cinema and various artistic disciplines, the deviation in the construction of the canonical character and the incorporation of the performance. From the study of these three variables it is possible to unravel the specificities and common points around this phenomenon developed in cinematographies with heterogeneous traditions.
Cossalter Javier (2020), “Hibridación, intermedialidad y performance en el cortometraje latinoamericano moderno” en PragMATIZES - Revista Latino-Americana de Estudos em Cultura, Universidade Federal Fluminense, ISSN 2237-1508, año 10, nº 19, pp. 274-297.
Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual, 2020
The Red de Investigadores sobre Cine Latinoamericano was created with the purpose of forming a circuit of exchange of knowledge and to promote studies on the cinema of the region. This work tries to map the research projects of the members of the Network with the proposal of announcing the current panorama about the institutional context of production of these works as well as to unravel the historical-analytical problems and the approaches addressed in them. Through comparative analysis, this essay allows us to observe a preponderance of public universities as promoters of Latin American film research, the focus on national cinematographies linked with the institutional origin, the comprehension of regional cinema as a global phenomenon and the recognition of a multiplicity of perspectives of approach to the cinematographic object that goes from textual analysis to the study of reception.
Cossalter, Javier (2020), “La Red de Investigadores sobre Cine Latinoamericano (RICiLa). Cartografía de las problemáticas abordadas en el último lustro” en Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual, SOCINE, ISSN 2316-9230, Vol. 9, nº 17, pp. 336-354.
Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía, 2020
The short film, according to its economic and structural potentialities, played a leading role in the transformation of the Latin American film field during the fifties and sixties, both in aesthetic renewal and social commitment. The proposal of this work is to analyze a corpus of short Argentine, Brazilian and Mexican documentaries together with their production conditions with the interest of making a double reflection on the political and heritage dimension of this cinema. In the first place, it will focus on the observational profile of the camera, the edition, the testimony and the voices as expressive elements tending to register a social problem in the present of gestation of the film and intervene in that reality. Secondly, and in a complementary way, attention will be placed on the mnemonic character of the corpus and the construction of a cultural document for posterity, taking into account not only the textuality of the films but also the heritage awareness of the entities of production and diffusion in each country.
Cossalter, Javier (2020), “El cortometraje latinoamericano moderno. Registro, dispositivo, documento y memoria”, Dossier: “El cine y la memoria: formas de producción y dimensiones históricas” en Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía, Universidad de Málaga, ISNN 2172-0150, nº 20, pp. 305-334.
Cuadernos, 2019
The short film was an essential factor for the impulse and development of Argentine modern cinema between the fifties and the seventies. However, the history of the national cinema has not deepened in the specific features of the short film and marginalized it to the position of mere initiatory rite in the director's career. In this sense, the proposal of this article is to review, on the one hand, different canonical perspectives on the national short film that focus on its formative function and on the other, different investigations about modern cinema where the short is not incorporated as a decisive link. Then, these papers will be confronted with a new point of view that effectively certifies the role of the short film in the process of modernization of Argentine cinema. It is built by four premises: the plurality of functions around the film of short duration, the structural characteristics of the short, the survival of the phenomenon in the period and the methodology of textual analysis.
Cossalter, Javier (2019) “La historiografía argentina y el cortometraje moderno local. Un nuevo enfoque de aproximación” en Cuadernos, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, ISSN 1668-8104, nº 56, pp. 167-192.
Quiroga. Revista de Patrimonio Iberoamericano, 2019
In the context of renewal of the Latin American cultural field between the mid-fifties and the mid-sixties, we analyze the role of the Argentinean and Mexican short film as a means of promoting intermediate processes between cinema and visual arts, as well as we reflect on its potential capacity of cultural documentation and patrimonialization in the context of production and its heritage reactivation nowadays.
Cossalter, Javier (2019), “La patrimonialización del cortometraje moderno sobre arte en Argentina y México”, Dossier: “Archivos y Creación Artística, Memoria e identidad” en Quiroga. Revista de Patrimonio Iberoamericano, Universidad de Granada, ISSN 2254-7037, nº 16, pp. 12-21.
Imagofagia, 2019
This article is focused on the evolution and expansion of contemporary Chaco’s cinema and audiovisual. Since the enactment of the Ley Provincial de Cultura (2008) and the Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (2009) –together with the progressive public policies of promotion in this area– local production evidenced a quantitative and qualitative transformation compared to its development in the previous stage. In this sense, the objective of this work is to make a cartography of Chaco’s film and audiovisual to observe the effective incidence of state policies in the creation and consolidation of producers, the increase of digital productions marked by a local imprint that transcend the cinematographic scope and the conformation of a relational framework within the NEA that is manifested in the regional character of the audiovisual realizations conceived in and from Chaco.
Cossalter, Javier (2019), “La producción audiovisual contemporánea en Chaco y las leyes de fomento. Expansión local y alcances en la región del NEA”, Dossier: “La producción regional en el cine argentino y latinoamericano” en Imagofagia, ISSN 1852-9550, nº 20, pp. 321-349.
Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, 2019
This article deals with modern Latin American cinema through the study of the Brazilian and Chilean university short film. The renewal of the regional cinema during the sixties was traditionally linked to the "new national cinemas" and the phenomenon known as New Latin American Cinema, fully constituted at the end of the decade. However, the central postulates of this modernization –the production on the margin of industry together with the articulation of aesthetic experimentation and a socio-political approach– were set in motion by the short film from the mid and late fifties. In this sense, the Brazilian and Chilean examples are studied comparatively in order to unravel similarities and divergences in the role of the short film and its modern components. The work is organized in two sections. In the first, a contextual analysis is carried out to focus on the university work of the Centro Popular de Cultura and Cine Experimental as promoters of the renovation. In the second one, a comparative textual analysis of a corpus of university shorts from both countries is made taking into account formal ranges –enunciative self-consciousness– and semantic ones –social commitment with the popular sectors–. Finally, the position of the short film as the initial manager of modern cinema is confirmed by highlighting the innovative characters generally associated with the feature emblematic films of modern cinema.
Cossalter, Javier (2019), “El cortometraje como impulsor primigenio de la modernidad cinematográfica en Brasil y en Chile. Entre la pesquisa estética y el compromiso social”, Dossier: “El campo audiovisual latinoamericano en la era digital: disputas y desafíos” en Meridional. Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Chile, ISSN (en línea) 0719-4862, nº 12, pp. 17-54.
Journal Ética y Cine, 2018
The presence of the African-American community in North American cinema dates back of the beginning of the seventh art. However, the relationship between the representation of whites and blacks on the screen was always uneven. With the passing of time Hollywood has seen an evolution in the forms of approach to the rights of blacks in their films. However, this alleged inclusive policy manifests, in an underlying way, a solid segregationist root. The purpose of this article is to analyze three films from different eras concerning the issue of Civil Rights, made in Hollywood by white filmmakers, to examine how, through different strategies, the white man positions himself in a place of power. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967), Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker, 1988) and The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011) are commercially successful films that address the problems of blacks from a supposedly revalorizing approach but that deep down they hold a strong racist spirit.
Cossalter, Javier (2018), “La omnipotente blancura: el tratamiento de los Derechos Civiles en el cine norteamericano de Hollywood. Tres ejemplos paradigmáticos de éxito comercial” en Journal Ética y Cine. ISSN (en línea) 2250-5415, Vol. 8, nº 3, pp. 23-32.
Folia Histórica del Nordeste, 2018
The article addresses the problems of film schools in national universities and short films as fundamental agents in the transition from classical cinema to modern cinema, and in the subsequent establishment of the latter. From the historical development of the five fundamental schools of the period can be observed some shared features that were erected as novelties: alternative ways of conceiving cinema, the decentralization of production and geographical opening, professional training and collective socio-political commitment. Then, through the filmic analysis of two groups of short films made within these entities, the modern character of these works can be seen in two primordial aspects: aesthetic experimentation and self-reflection of the expressive medium on the one hand, and the adoption of a critical approach in the representation of the subaltern sectors, on the other; qualities that, thanks to the structural potentialities of the short film, break with the transparency of the narration and the relativist or populist point of view, central characteristics of the classical canon within Argentine cinema.
Cossalter, Javier (2018), “Del centro a la periferia. Las escuelas de cine nacionales, las rupturas del cortometraje y las nuevas formas de representación de los sectores populares en la transición del cine clásico al moderno” en Folia Histórica del Nordeste, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. ISSN 2525-1627, nº 32, pp. 7-33.
Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2018
The Argentinean, Mexican and Cuban cinematography’s, which were heterogeneous in their industrial filmmaking, saw a productive and expressive renewal in the mid-1950s in dialogue with the transformations of the cultural field. The short film was precisely the driving force of the renovation. The present article makes a comparative analysis of these cinemas from three short films and the respective cinematographic and cultural contexts of production. Exploring the stream of the film about art the short film shows its fundamental role in the constitution of Latin American modern cinema through the aesthetic experimentation of language and its semantic link with the reconfiguration of cultural and artistic regional field.
Cossalter, Javier (2018), “El cortometraje latinoamericano moderno. Experimentación estética y vínculos con el campo cultural en Argentina, Cuba y México” en Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISSN 1870-3062, Vol. XL, nº 113, pp. 9-39.
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2018
We propose to analyze the participation of the short film in the Argentine modern cinema, in order to verify his early promoter role in the renewal but with the ultimate aim to transcend the traditional concept that postulates the short film as a mere stepping stone to feature films. The Argentine short film within the period 1950-1976 brought together various forms and functions, whether aesthetic or political. Putting into context the short film in different national cinemas in the world during the same stage supports our premises.
Cossalter, Javier (2018), “La productividad del cortometraje en la modernidad cinematográfica. El caso argentino” en Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal. ISSN 2255-520X, Vol. 18, nº 68, pp. 141-166.