Beschreibung:
Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas rethinks the intersection between violence and its gendered representation.
Preface by Leticia Sabsay; Screening Counter-Violence: An Introduction to Giving Account Beyond Memories of Trauma; Chapter 1 - Female Bodies on Lisbon's Margins: Space, Embodiment and (Dis)Possession in Alda e Maria (Pocas Pascoal, 2011); Chapter 2 - Women's Memories of Political Violence in Brazilian Cinema; Chapter 3 - Violence, Resistance and Female Agency in Filmic Representations of the Franco Regime; Chapter 4 - Renouncing Violence: Terrorism and Feminisation in Basque Cinema; Chapter 5 - Sexykiller (Miguel Martí, 2008): Female Psycho-killers and Post-feminism in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film; Chapter 6 - Horror, Gender Violence and Latin American Heteronormative Rhetoric as Mechanisms to Invoke a Queer Subjectivity in La memoria del muerto (Valentín Javier Diment, 2011); Chapter 7 - Torture, Masculinity, and Resistance in Chilean Documentary Film: Patricio Guzman and Marcela Said; Chapter 8 - War, Women and Post-hegemonic Representations in Magallanes (Salvador del Solar, 2015); Chapter 9 - Troubling Gender in Cuban Cinema: From History to Story; Chapter 10 - The Poetics of Affect in Documentary Film-making about Feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez, ; Chapter 11 - From Cinema to the Live Regime: Pedagogies of Cruelty and Social Anesthesia in Two Latin American Movies