When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly challenging contemporary norms. Their Argentine films developed a large and international fan base. Analyzing the couple's films and their subsequent censorship, Violated Frames develops a new, roughly constructed, and "bad" archive of relocated materials to debate questions of performance, authorship, stardom, sexuality, and circulation. Victoria Ruetalo situates Bo and Sarli's films amidst the popular culture and sexual norms in post-1955 Argentina, and explores these films through the lens of bodies engaged in labor and leisure in a context of growing censorship. Under Peron, manual labor produced an affect that fixed a specific type of body to the populist movement of Peronism: a type of body that was young, lower-classed, and highly gendered. The excesses of leisure in exhibition, enjoyment, and ecstasy in Bo and Sarli's films interrupted the already fragmented film narratives of the day and created alternative sexual possibilities.


About the Author

Victoria Ruetalo is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She is coeditor of Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America.

Reviews
"Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits is an essential read for anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating piece of World Cinema history and the fabulous icon that was Isabel Sarli." * CinemaRetro *



Book Information
ISBN 9780520380097
Author Victoria Ruetalo
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm