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Title
Body, gender, and sexuality in Latin American cinema : insurgent skin / Juli A. Kroll.
ISBN
9783030845582 (electronic bk.)
3030845583 (electronic bk.)
9783030845575 hardcover
3030845575 hardcover
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-84558-2 doi
Call Number
PN1993.5.L3
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4365267
Summary
Insurgent Skin: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema 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 Martels Salta trilogy and the lesbian utopia of Albertina Carris Las hijas del fuego (2018). Next, the book discusses the female body as uncanny absence in Tatiana Huezos documentary Tempestad (2016), a film about gendered violence in Mexico. Chapter Five focuses on intersex films and the establishing of queer solidarity and an intersex gaze. The last chapter examines transgender embodiment in the Chilean film Una mujer fantastica (2017) and Brazilian documentary Bixa Travesty (2018). Dr. Juli A. Kroll is Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she also directs the Film Studies program. Dr. Kroll teaches Latin American literature, culture, and film studies. Her research focuses on Latin American cultural production, with emphasis on gender and sexualities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed October 3, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
1. Introduction: The Naked Truth: Body, Gender and Sexuality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema
2. Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in Lucrecia Martels Salta Trilogy
3. The Lesbian Utopia of Albertina Carris Las hijas del fuego (2018)
4. Non-Binary: Gender Trouble and Intersex Bodies in Latin American Cinema
5. The Female Body as Absence: Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo (2016) and Ayer maravilla fui by Gabriel Marino (2017)
6. Embodied Existence as Resistance: The Transgender Body as Political Protest
7. Nudity and Social Protest in Latin America: Artivisms Filmed Effects
8. Conclusion.
