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Author Maseda García, Rebeca

Title Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (223 p.)
Series Global Gender Ser
Global Gender Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Screening counter- violence: An introduction to giving account beyond memories of trauma -- References -- Part I Memories of gender resistance against violence -- 1 Female bodies on Lisbon's margins: Space, embodiment and (dis)possession in Alda e Maria (Pocas Pascoal, 2011) -- The dockyard: postcolonial violence and dispossession -- The apartment: haunting and possessing space
The sewing room: unexpected violence and ambiguous victimhood -- The phone booth: identity transformation and translocality -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 2 Women's memories of political violence in Brazilian cinema -- Setenta: the "small story" approach to remembering state violence -- Uncertainty and failure in Diário de uma busca -- The subjective turn: Setenta and Diário de uma busca in context -- The female protagonist in Que bom te ver viva and A memória que me contam -- Sorority in Vou contar para os meus filhos -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References
3 Violence, resistance, and female agency in filmic representations of the Franco regime -- Mutilating the female body: Pelonas and the reappropriation of the dispossessed body -- Erasing the maternal body: Izarren Argia and the articulation of subjectivity -- Unfinished pasts: El gran vuelo, ghosts, and embodiments -- Fighting anonymity: Luchadoras anónimas and transgenerational post-memory -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part II Gender violence and agency -- 5 Sexykiller (Miguel Martí, 2008): Female psycho-killers and post-feminism in contemporary Spanish horror film
The slasher film -- Sexy killer -- Killer Barbie doll -- Femme castratrice -- Female psycho-killer -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 6 Horror, gender violence and Latin American heteronormative rhetoric as mechanisms to invoke a queer subjectivity in ... -- Notes -- References -- Part III The chiaroscuros of witnessing gender violence -- 7 Torture, masculinity, and resistance in Chilean documentary film: Patricio Guzmán and Marcela Said -- Militarized masculinity and torture -- The Pinochet Case -- I Love Pinochet -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References
8 War, women, and post-hegemonic representations in Magallanes (Salvador del Solar, 2015) -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 9 Troubling gender in Cuban cinema: From history to story -- Lucía -- Mujer transparente -- Mujer transparente ("Isabel") -- Mujer transparente ("Zoë") -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Gender violence across geographical borders -- 10 The poetics of affect in documentary film-making about feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez -- La batalla de las cruces: contestation through creative anger -- Blood Rising: sadness on repeat -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References
Notes Description based upon print version of record
11 From cinema to the live regime: Pedagogies of cruelty and social anesthesia in two Latin American movies
Form Electronic book
Author Gámez Fuentes, María José
Zecchi, Barbara
ISBN 9780429790560
0429790562