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An innovative examination of domestic spaces in Latin American cinema.

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"A timely and engaging first monograph.-- ""Bulletin of Latin American Research"" Merchant's insightful study of domestic spaces in contemporary Chilean and Argentine cinema provides an innovative rethinking of the ways in which today's filmmakers are using domestic spaces to blur the boundaries between the public and private and explore new ways of being-in-common.--Michael Lazzara, University of California, Davis ""Remaking Home renews both film studies and studies of Latin American culture. Through the conceptual lens of 'domestic spaces, ' Merchant reflects on the relations between house and home, politics and image, and postdictatorship, neoliberalism and decentered subjects. With insightful analyses of recent films and references to urbanism, literary narratives, and political constellations, Merchant explores the possibility of constructing, through the life of images, new forms of life in common."" --Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina ""Merchant's insightful study of domestic spaces in contemporary Chilean and Argentine cinema provides an innovative rethinking of the ways in which today's filmmakers are using domestic spaces to blur the boundaries between the public and private and explore new ways of being-in-common."" --Michael Lazzara, University of California, Davis ""A timely and engaging first monograph."" --Bulletin of Latin American Research Remaking Home renews both film studies and studies of Latin American culture. Through the conceptual lens of 'domestic spaces, ' Merchant reflects on the relations between house and home, politics and image, and postdictatorship, neoliberalism and decentered subjects. With insightful analyses of recent films and references to urbanism, literary narratives, and political constellations, Merchant explores the possibility of constructing, through the life of images, new forms of life in common.--Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina"

"A timely and engaging first monograph.-- ""Bulletin of Latin American Research"" Merchant's insightful study of domestic spaces in contemporary Chilean and Argentine cinema provides an innovative rethinking of the ways in which today's filmmakers are using domestic spaces to blur the boundaries between the public and private and explore new ways of being-in-common.--Michael Lazzara, University of California, Davis Remaking Home renews both film studies and studies of Latin American culture. Through the conceptual lens of 'domestic spaces, ' Merchant reflects on the relations between house and home, politics and image, and postdictatorship, neoliberalism and decentered subjects. With insightful analyses of recent films and references to urbanism, literary narratives, and political constellations, Merchant explores the possibility of constructing, through the life of images, new forms of life in common.--Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina"

Remaking Home renews both film studies and studies of Latin American culture. Through the conceptual lens of 'domestic spaces, ' Merchant reflects on the relations between house and home, politics and image, and postdictatorship, neoliberalism and decentered subjects. With insightful analyses of recent films and references to urbanism, literary narratives, and political constellations, Merchant explores the possibility of constructing, through the life of images, new forms of life in common. --Gonzalo Aguilar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Merchant's insightful study of domestic spaces in contemporary Chilean and Argentine cinema provides an innovative rethinking of the ways in which today's filmmakers are using domestic spaces to blur the boundaries between the public and private and explore new ways of being-in-common. --Michael Lazzara, University of California, Davis

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Vincent Wixon, scholar in the William Stafford Archives, is the author of three books of poetry: Blue Moon, The Square Grove, and Seed. He has coproduced documentary films on Lawson Inada and William Stafford. His article written with

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