Body, gender, and sexuality in Latin American cinema : insurgent skin / Juli A. Kroll.
"Argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes. Grounded in feminist and queer theory, 'Insurgent skin&...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | "Argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes. Grounded in feminist and queer theory, 'Insurgent skin' conjugates film phenomenology and theories of affect and embodiment to analyze a spectrum of Latin American films. The first chapters explore queer signifying in Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel's Salta trilogy and the lesbian utopia of Albertina Carri's 'Las hijas del fuego' (2018). Next, the book discusses the female body as uncanny absence in Tatiana Huezo's documentary 'Tempestad' (2016), about gendered violence in Mexico. Chapter five focuses on intersex films and the establishing of an intersex gaze. The last chapter examines transgender embodiment in the Chilean film 'Una mujer fantástica' (2017) and Brazilian documentary 'Bixa travesty' (2018)."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030845583 9783030845582 3030845575 9783030845575 |
| ISSN: | 2662-9364 |