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Book SynopsisRecent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as New Maricón Cinema, Vinodh Venkatesh argues that they represent a distinct break from what he terms Maricón Cinema, or a cinema that deals with sex and gender difference through an ethically and visually disaffected position, exemplified in films such as Fresa y chocolate, No se lo digas a nadie, and El lugar sin límites.
Covering feature films from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Venezuela, New Maricón Cinema is the first study to contextualize and analyze recent homo-/trans-/intersexed-themed cinema in Latin America within a broader historical and aesthetic genealogy. Working with theories of aff
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Maricón Cinema
- 1. Ficheras and Jotos in Mexican Cinema: We Just Want to Be Seen!
- 2. The Maricón: On Closets and Spectacular Bodies
- 3. Final Notes on a Maricón Genre
- Part II: New Maricón Cinema
- 4. Outing Contracorriente: On Spatial Contracts and Feeling New Maricónness
- 5. Outing El último verano de la Boyita: On Masculinities and the Moment of Engagement
- 6. XX-
- 7. Final Notes on Outing Latin America
- Part III: Rematerializing Bodies and the Urban Space
- 8. Plan B: Let’s Go Back to the City
- 9. On Children and Neoliberal Structures of Feeling
- 10. Closing Notes on a Very Open Field
- Films Discussed
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
