... llama la atención sobre los problemas discursivos que surgen a la hora de forjar una identida... more ... llama la atención sobre los problemas discursivos que surgen a la hora de forjar una identidad ... con el supuesto trauma de la ruptura del transexual con su pasado de hombredebe aclararse ... Lemebel: Políticas de consenso, masculinidad y travestismo. Chasqui: Revista de ...
Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of af... more Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of affect and spectacle through a narrative of spaces and bodies that is neither realist, comedic, nor melodramatic. This chapter draws upon affect theories that study the spectacle of cinematic spaces and political bodies in Latin American film. The protagonist of Larraín’s film is an inconsequential morgue clerk who transcribed the details of Salvador Allende’s autopsy after the president’s death in the 11th September 1973 coup d’état. Post Mortem intentionally abstains from an explicit political commentary or sentimental release. The plot and cinematic technique combine to paint an uncomfortably naked image of evil, without guilt-ridden or heroic characters. The systematic dislocation, de/familiarization, and desecration of spaces sacralized by the collective memory allows Larraín’s film to trespass the affective boundaries of political melodrama. Spaces that should have been familiar appear eerily distant and strange, morphing into dystopian versions of themselves as hospitals become morgues and body dumpsters, city streets turn into empty battlefields, and homes are now targets, prisons, or tombs.
This essay analyzes the film Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) by the Chilean director Andrés Wood as... more This essay analyzes the film Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) by the Chilean director Andrés Wood as a model for the ethical dilemmas present in the creation and reception of Latin American cinema in the early twenty-first century. As the dichotomy global/homogeneous vs. local/heterogeneous becomes blurrier, contemporary film analysis requires a critical stance that sidesteps the limitations of outdated paradigms. Furthermore, the epistemic shift and increased attention to affect in cultural and film studies invites us to approach Wood’s film in its emotional/political context. By framing it as a contemporary melodrama in the capitalist market, we are able to better understand the complex dynamics that rule film production and reception in a globalized world. Thus, Violeta Went to Heaven can be interpreted as a responsible and self-aware film in a globalized cultural market. Its storytelling relies on cinematic strategies (e.g. melodramatic elements, circular and self referential soundscapes, etc.) that amplify emotional elements in order to represent an ethical position, without sacrificing its commercial appeal at home and abroad. By doing so, Wood’s film portrays the cultural icon Violeta Parra as the unequivocal embodiment of an aesthetic stance that seeks to resist the neoliberal forces of globalization that rule how films are created and marketed.
Estudio sobre la película de Claudia Llosa 'La teta asustada' (Perú-España, 2009) dedicado a la r... more Estudio sobre la película de Claudia Llosa 'La teta asustada' (Perú-España, 2009) dedicado a la relación entre la representación del cuerpo, la mirada cinematográfica y el género a la luz de dos referentes teóricos esenciales, los estudios de biopolítica de Giorgio Agamben en Homo Sacer, y la exploración del concepto de fuera de plano por la teórica feminista Teresa de Lauretis. Palabras Clave: cine latinoamericano-cine peruano – cuerpo – mirada cinematográfica – género – biopolítica – sujetos femeninos – sujetos indígenas.
sido una de las figuras literarias puertorriqueñas más importantes dentro del género del cuento d... more sido una de las figuras literarias puertorriqueñas más importantes dentro del género del cuento durante las ú ltimas décadas. Desde que publicara Vírgenes y mártires en 1981, en colaboració n con Carmen Lugo Filippi, Vega se ha consolidado como uno de los pilares de la cuentística hispanoamericana contemporánea. A esta primera colecció n siguió -ya en solitario-Encaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio (1983), y en 1987 se publicó en Buenos Aires un volumen de cuentos detectivescos titulado Pasión de historia y otras historias de pasión.
A study of the fictional representation of Catalan identities in the novels of Eduardo Mendoza, J... more A study of the fictional representation of Catalan identities in the novels of Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marsé, Enrique Vila-Matas , Nuria Amat and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán at the end of the twentieth century.
... llama la atención sobre los problemas discursivos que surgen a la hora de forjar una identida... more ... llama la atención sobre los problemas discursivos que surgen a la hora de forjar una identidad ... con el supuesto trauma de la ruptura del transexual con su pasado de hombredebe aclararse ... Lemebel: Políticas de consenso, masculinidad y travestismo. Chasqui: Revista de ...
Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of af... more Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of affect and spectacle through a narrative of spaces and bodies that is neither realist, comedic, nor melodramatic. This chapter draws upon affect theories that study the spectacle of cinematic spaces and political bodies in Latin American film. The protagonist of Larraín’s film is an inconsequential morgue clerk who transcribed the details of Salvador Allende’s autopsy after the president’s death in the 11th September 1973 coup d’état. Post Mortem intentionally abstains from an explicit political commentary or sentimental release. The plot and cinematic technique combine to paint an uncomfortably naked image of evil, without guilt-ridden or heroic characters. The systematic dislocation, de/familiarization, and desecration of spaces sacralized by the collective memory allows Larraín’s film to trespass the affective boundaries of political melodrama. Spaces that should have been familiar appear eerily distant and strange, morphing into dystopian versions of themselves as hospitals become morgues and body dumpsters, city streets turn into empty battlefields, and homes are now targets, prisons, or tombs.
This essay analyzes the film Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) by the Chilean director Andrés Wood as... more This essay analyzes the film Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) by the Chilean director Andrés Wood as a model for the ethical dilemmas present in the creation and reception of Latin American cinema in the early twenty-first century. As the dichotomy global/homogeneous vs. local/heterogeneous becomes blurrier, contemporary film analysis requires a critical stance that sidesteps the limitations of outdated paradigms. Furthermore, the epistemic shift and increased attention to affect in cultural and film studies invites us to approach Wood’s film in its emotional/political context. By framing it as a contemporary melodrama in the capitalist market, we are able to better understand the complex dynamics that rule film production and reception in a globalized world. Thus, Violeta Went to Heaven can be interpreted as a responsible and self-aware film in a globalized cultural market. Its storytelling relies on cinematic strategies (e.g. melodramatic elements, circular and self referential soundscapes, etc.) that amplify emotional elements in order to represent an ethical position, without sacrificing its commercial appeal at home and abroad. By doing so, Wood’s film portrays the cultural icon Violeta Parra as the unequivocal embodiment of an aesthetic stance that seeks to resist the neoliberal forces of globalization that rule how films are created and marketed.
Estudio sobre la película de Claudia Llosa 'La teta asustada' (Perú-España, 2009) dedicado a la r... more Estudio sobre la película de Claudia Llosa 'La teta asustada' (Perú-España, 2009) dedicado a la relación entre la representación del cuerpo, la mirada cinematográfica y el género a la luz de dos referentes teóricos esenciales, los estudios de biopolítica de Giorgio Agamben en Homo Sacer, y la exploración del concepto de fuera de plano por la teórica feminista Teresa de Lauretis. Palabras Clave: cine latinoamericano-cine peruano – cuerpo – mirada cinematográfica – género – biopolítica – sujetos femeninos – sujetos indígenas.
sido una de las figuras literarias puertorriqueñas más importantes dentro del género del cuento d... more sido una de las figuras literarias puertorriqueñas más importantes dentro del género del cuento durante las ú ltimas décadas. Desde que publicara Vírgenes y mártires en 1981, en colaboració n con Carmen Lugo Filippi, Vega se ha consolidado como uno de los pilares de la cuentística hispanoamericana contemporánea. A esta primera colecció n siguió -ya en solitario-Encaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio (1983), y en 1987 se publicó en Buenos Aires un volumen de cuentos detectivescos titulado Pasión de historia y otras historias de pasión.
A study of the fictional representation of Catalan identities in the novels of Eduardo Mendoza, J... more A study of the fictional representation of Catalan identities in the novels of Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Marsé, Enrique Vila-Matas , Nuria Amat and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán at the end of the twentieth century.
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