Overview
- Analyses the body in lesbian, feminist, intersex and transgender Latin American
- Argues that lesbian, feminist, intersex and transgender Latin American cinema since 2001
- Examines shared strategies of resistance and contestation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender (PSRG)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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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 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), 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 fantástica (2017) and Brazilian documentary Bixa Travesty (2018).Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema: Insurgent Skin
Authors: Juli A. Kroll
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84558-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84557-5Published: 02 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84560-5Published: 02 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84558-2Published: 01 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-9364
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9372
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 249
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Latin American Cinema and TV