Fornoff / Heffes Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8405-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American Cinema

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fornoff, Carolyn

Heffes, Gisela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn 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.