Author Spotlight

​Matthew B. Karush

Matthew B. Karush is a professor of history at George Mason University. He is a specialist in modern Argentine history and the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (Duke University Press, 2017) and Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946 (Duke, 2012).

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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4

Prisioneros de la tierra: Tropical Oppression

A high point of early Argentine cinema, Mario Soffici’s 1939 film about the plight of plantation workers is an unflinching examination of exploitation and violence.

By ​Matthew B. Karush

Essays— Sep 28, 2022