Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

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Sous la direction de Carolyn Fornoff et Gisela Heffes

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Pays > Amérique latine
Mots Clés: Amérique latine
Année d'édition: 2022
1ere édition: 2021
Editeur: State University of New York Press
Collection: SUNY series in Latin American cinema
Langue: anglais

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Relié • 376 pages
15,5 x 23 cm

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978-1-4384-8404-4

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Description de l'ouvrage :
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.

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the "human" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species.

À propos des auteurs :
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.

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