Laura Podalsky's Aesthetics

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Laura Podalsky explores the theme “aesthetics of detachment” in the article "The Aesthetics of Detachment" as how Latin American film and cinema has a notable and concurrent deadpan comedies and also minimalist dramas. She begins by identifying the most noticeable and important characteristics of the new aesthetics in Latin America cinema. The films include the “interest in disaffected characters, the utilization of particular formal tactics, and a distanced mode of address.” (Podalsky, 237). When she mentions “Aesthetics” she focuses by comparing the films directed by Amat Escalante and Fernando Eimbcke which is know Temporada de patos and Club Sandwich but for this reading she focuses on his film Lake Tahoe for and to show how both of their