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Presenting a comprehensive overview of recent queer cinema in Latin America, this pathfinding volume identifies a new vein of filmmaking that promotes affective relationships between viewers and homo/trans/intersexed characters.

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

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 27/09/2016
      ISBN13: 9781477310151, 978-1477310151
      ISBN10: 1477310150
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presenting a comprehensive overview of recent queer cinema in Latin America, this pathfinding volume identifies a new vein of filmmaking that promotes affective relationships between viewers and homo/trans/intersexed characters.

      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

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