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Documenting Violence in Calderón's Mexico
In Mexico, during the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and as a direct result of his 'war' on drugs, at least 60,000 people were killed, tens of thousands were 'disappeared' and countless more were subjected to kidnapping and sexual violence. This book analyses how artists and filmmakers, alongside affected citizens, attempted to navigate, articulate and contend with this unparalleled escalation in brutality. In Mexico, during the presidency of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and as a direct result of his 'war' on drugs, at least 60,000 people were killed, tens of thousands were 'disappeared' and countless more were subjected to kidnapping and sexual violence. This book analyses how a...
Gender-Based Violence in Mexico
This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence. Since the democratic transition at the end of the 1990s, Mexico has registered an increase in the intensity and types of violence that have made life in some regions almost unsustainable. The chapters in this volume consider that capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are interrelated processes that employ the technologies of gender and race as a continuation of the symbolic hegemony that treats feminized and racialized bodies as disposable. Against this background, it ...
Latin American History at the Movies
Movies are meant to be entertaining, but they can also be educational. People are naturally curious to know how much of what they see on their screens might be historically true. In Latin American History at the Movies, experts on Latin America focus on five centuries of history as portrayed in feature films. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past in movies sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America made from the 1980s to the present.
Is There Such a Thing as Populism?
Is There Such a Thing as Populism? calls into question our common understanding of populism. Taken on their own, commonplace references to the people, leaders, or elites are more like dog whistles or false positives of populism than part of a serious attempt to address the phenomenon. Scholars asked themselves, “What is populism?” without realizing that this assumed there was such a thing and that we just needed to figure out what it meant. That was a mistake. Benjamin Arditi proposes that we put this certainty on hold and start from a different premise, asking, “Is there such a thing as populism?” This doesn’t rule out its existence or take it for granted. Structured as a set of p...
Cuerpo y cámara: la experiencia documental mexicana (2000-2020)
A decir de Juan Alberto Apodaca en el prólogo de esta publicación, las experiencias cinematográficas dispuestas en este libro invitan a sus lectores a evidenciar la diversidad del documental mexicano contemporáneo como pieza artística, como propuesta política, como rastros de realidad nunca total, pero que en su parcialidad detonan y complejizan los puntos de vista de realizadores, de investigadores y del público que, en esas historias nos reflejamos nosotros mismos en una búsqueda permanente de sentido ante la apabullante realidad que nos atraviesa.
Lo excepcional de lo común
Este pequeño libro de entrevistas que ha llegado a sus manos (a su pantalla) tal vez sea una obra largamente esperada, o tal vez una gozosa sorpresa de la que apenas ha tenido noticia. Tal vez le parezca un texto novedoso o, por el contrario, lo encuentre anclado en una forma del pasado, una reminiscencia de antaño. También puede parecerle apenas una probada de la realidad mexicana vista a través de unos cuantos artistas, o puede pensar que cada entrevista es el ingreso a un mundo vasto y fértil por explorar, que abre caminos para entender mejor el arte cinematográfico nacional de los últimos años. Esta pequeña joya lo llevará a recorrer y recordar las formas, andanzas y penurias del cine mexicano reflejado en la mirada y voz de ocho realizadores contemporáneos: Ludovic Bonleux, Fernando Llanos, Sergio Ortiz, Nicolasa Ruiz Mendoza, Francesco Taboada, Juan Francisco Urrusti Alonso, Eva Villaseñor y Jaime Villa.
A la sombra de los caudillos. El presidencialismo en el cine mexicano
A la sombra de los caudillos. Cine y presidencialismo en México. ofrece al lector agudas miradas al pasado sobre la relación de amor y odio entre dos emparentadas tradiciones: la cinematográfica y la del presidencialismo moderno. Más de una decena de analistas recorren los sexenios y su aparato de producción de imágenes, desde el momento en que nace la industria del cine mexicano y el poder político se institucionaliza en el periodo de Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940), hasta que el presidencialismo termina como una sombra endeble proyectada en la figura de Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018). En el fondo, se trata de una contribución a la historia del cine y, en alguna medida, a la historia del presidencialismo mexicano, que deberá continuarse al final de los sexenios venideros.
Narrativas Imagéticas
Apresentamos o livro Narrativas Imagéticas, que resulta dos artigos selecionados para o 2o Congresso Internacional Media Ecology and Image Studies, e esperamos que os mesmos colaborem para a difusão científica, em especial sobre essas temáticas. Encontramos olhares oriundos de diversos países e áreas do conhecimento. Uma diversidade concretizada pelo não-lugar, que transforma a nossa territorialidade em um espaço binário infinito. Boa leitura.
ArTecnologia: Arte, Tecnologia e Linguagens Midiáticas
A proposta do encontro ArTecnologia, que ocorreu no Programa de Pós Graduação em Comunicação, da Faculdade de Comunicação Social da UERJ, em junho de 2012, foi encaminhar algumas reflexões em torno da complexa relação entre arte e tecnologia, trazendo alguns questionamentos pontuais, tais como: Os públicos se transformam a partir do acesso a obras de artes mediadas tecnologicamente? De que modo? Como as artes dialogam com o entretenimento em meio a uma cultura fortemente midiática? Seriam os games novas expressões de arte? Informações visualizadas através de mapas digitais e outras interfaces expressariam de modo singular o encontro da tecnologia e da artes na contemporaneida...
Tastemakers and Tastemaking
Tastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments: the decade-long centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010; the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s; and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created, mediated, selected, or categorized by tastemakers, through the strategic choices made by institutions, filmmakers, actors, and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between "good" and "bad" taste, Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both "high" and "low" media, including film cycles and festivals, adaptations of Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel, Los de Abajo, Amat Escalante's hyperrealist art films, and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela, La reina del sur. Making extensive use of videographic criticism, Thornton pays particularly close attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, both on and off screen.
