Other Americans : the art of Latin America in the US imaginary / Matthew Bush.

"Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin Ameri...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Main Author: Bush, Matthew, 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Latin America > In mass media.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Latin Americans > In mass media.
Other (Philosophy) in mass media.
Mass media.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Latin America.
United States.
Physical Description:ix, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Speculative affects
  • Staging shame just across the border: reading Bolaño in the United States
  • From disgust to pity: viewing domestic labor in the films of Claudia Llosa and Alfonso Cuarón
  • [indistinct chatter in Spanish]: the fear of Latin America on Netflix
  • A hit and a miss: Hollywood's distressed take on the border
  • Daniel Alarcón and the anxious poetics of cultural translation
  • Coda: Latin America's hemispheric affects.