Body, gender, and sexuality in Latin American cinema : insurgent skin / Juli A. Kroll.

"Argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes. Grounded in feminist and queer theory, 'Insurgent skin' conjugate...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
Main Author: Kroll, Juli A. (Juli Ann) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Latin America.
Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
Transgender people in motion pictures.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
Intersexuality in motion pictures.
Minorités sexuelles au cinéma.
Transgenres au cinéma.
Identité sexuelle au cinéma.
Motion pictures.
Latin America.
Physical Description:x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Variant Title:
Insurgent skin
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Lesbian pathology and monstrous maternity in Lucrecia Martel's Salta trilogy
  • The lesbian utopia of Albertina Carri's "Las hijas del fuego" (2018)
  • Non-binary : gender trouble and intersex bodies in Latin American cinema
  • Prosthetic memory and uncanny absence : the female body in "Tempestad" (2016) by Tatiana Huezo
  • Embodied existence as resistance : the transgender body in "Una mujer fantástica" (2017) and "Bixa travesty (2018).