Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474480543 ISBN 13 : 9781474480543

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces.
With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomí (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr Niamh Thornton is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool.

Dr Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474480543
• ISBN 13: 9781474480543
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Éditeur: Thornton Niamh, Haddu Miriam
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