Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema...
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Author: Carolyn Fornoff
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Language: English
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Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema by Fornoff, Carolyn

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

CHF 74.46

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

CHF 74.46
Author: Carolyn Fornoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Carolyn Fornoff
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 01/02/2022
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781438484044

About the Author
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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