Re-Accentuation of the Use of Violence in Latin American Cinema
Re-Accentuation of the Use of Violence in Latin American Cinema
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This book explores the approaches of how various directors re-accentuate the use of violence in Latin American cinema.
This book employs Bakhtin's theory of re-accentuation, applying it to the notion of violence in Latin American cinema; that is, the meaning(s) of violence changes and takes on new meanings depending on its context. The case studies in this collection illuminate a re-accentuation of the presentation of violence stemming from the early days of colonial suppression that is acted out in the present time due to the relaxation of oppression and the ability of the oppressed or scarred to express their pain through violent behavior.
The scholars in this book demonstrate that the use of violence, which sometimes may seem too explicit or exaggerated, is the specific language of the Latin American cinema. They show how Latin American film production has changed over the past 70 years and how its specific language-the language of violence-has changed as well. In doing so, they uncover the underlying motives hidden behind the lens, behind the unconventional format that every Latin American director offers to the viewers in order to dissect and criticize society while proposing change.
The essays do not aim to represent every Latin American country, but rather the most significant productions that have made an international acclaim, including: Madeinusa (Peru), Bacurau (Brazil), and La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina), among others.
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Table of Contents
Slav Gratchev (Marshall University, USA) and Larry Sheret (Marshall University, USA)
1. Crime, Passion, and Vengeance: Religious and Social Transgression in Madeinusa
Ida Day (Marshall University, USA)
2. Private Lives, Public Trauma: The Politics of Dictatorship in Chilean Cinema
Pablo Policzer (University of Calgary, Canada)
3. Performing Violence in Luis Estrada's La dictadura perfecta
Elizabeth Montes Garces (University of Calgary, Canada)
4. The Language of Resistance: Violence as a Cinematic Tool in Bacurau (2019)
Antonio da Silva (University of Essex, UK)
5. Fissures of Violence: Multinaturalism, Atmospheric Cinema, and the Frontier-Form in Contemporary Latin American Urban Narratives
Jorge Antonio Flores Velasco (Universidad de las Artes de Ecuador Film School, Ecuador)
6. All the Labor Without the Workers: Violence and Virtual Immigration in Sleep Dealer
Melissa Garr (Florida Southern College, USA)
7. Hasta la madre: Structural Violence and Maternal Failure in Los Olvidados (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1950)
Mónica García Blizzard (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
8. Suspended in the Frame: Violence and Domestic Space in La Mujer Sin Cabeza [The Headless Woman] and Chile '76
Eva-Lynn Jagoe (University of Toronto, Canadad) and Isidora Cortes-Monroy (University of Toronto, Canada)
9. Homo Viator, Mulier Viatrix: Three Films by Alfonso Cuarón
Michael Eskin (Independent Scholar, USA)
10. Reenacting the Erasure: The Invisibility of Indigenous Repression in Recent Historical Chilean Cinema
Vania Barraza (University of Memphis, USA)
11. Docufictional Militancy: Revisiting the Films of Raymundo Gleyzer
Joshua Sperling (Oberlin College, USA)
12. Horror as Restorative Justice in Jayro Bustamante's La Llorona (2019)
Mauricio Espinoza (University of Cincinnati, USA)
13. Zombies and Zoe: Cartoon Violence and Expendable Life in Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste's Huevocartoon Franchise
David S. Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
14. Phenomenology and Violence in Jayro Bustamante's Rita and La Llorona
Particia Saldarriaga (Middlebury College, USA)
Index
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| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9798216461272 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 25 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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