Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
Overview"Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to ""push past the human,"" and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the ""human"" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn Fornoff , Gisela HeffesPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438484044ISBN 10: 1438484046 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 02 January 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Latin American Cinema Beyond the Human Carolyn Fornoff and Gisela Heffes Part I: Genre Beyond the Human 1. Movies on the Move: Filming the Amazon Rainforest Patrícia Vieira 2. Visualizing the Geosphere: The 1985 Earthquake in Mexican Cinema Carolyn Fornoff 3. Revisiting Nature and Documenting the Americas: From Alexander von Humboldt to the Contemporary Latin American Documentary Juana New 4. Slow Violence in the Slow Cinema of Lisandro Alonso Amanda Eaton McMenamin Part II: Encountering Difference 5. Humanimal Assemblages: Slaughters in Latin American Left-Wing Cinema Moira Fradinger 6. Reordering Material Hierarchies in Jossie Malis Álvarez's Animated Series, Bendito Machine Katherine Bundy 7. Mapping Queer Natures in Papu Curotto's Esteros Vinodh Venkatesh 8. Counterflows: Hydraulic Order and Residual Ecologies in Caribbean Fantasy Landscapes Lisa Blackmore 9. Differential Viscosities: The Material Hermeneutics of Blood, Oil, and Water in Crude and The Blood of Kouan Kouan Mark Anderson Part III: Screening the Pluriverse 10. Human Rights at the End of the World: Patricio Guzmán and the ""Imperative to Reimagine the Planet"" Fernando J. Rosenberg 11. Sea Turtles and Seascapes: Representing Human-Nature Relations in the Central American Caribbean Mauricio Espinoza and Tomás Emilio Arce 12. Refracting Lenses on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua: Documenting Social Ecologies and Biospheres in El ojo del tiburón and El canto de Bosawas Julia M. Medina 13. The Sacred Space of Motoapohua: Intercorporeal Animality and National Subjectivities in Nicolás Echevarría's Eco de la montaña Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou 14. Undisciplined Knowledge: Indigenous Activism and Decapitation Resistance Gisela Heffes Contributors Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationCarolyn Fornoff is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gisela Heffes is Associate Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at Rice University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
