Legacies of the Past
Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures
Published on 25. August 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-4744-8054-3 (ISBN)
Description
Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces.
With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomi (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzon, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.
With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomi (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzon, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.
Reviews / Votes
Legacies of the Past offers a timely examination of the ways memory and trauma dominate Mexican visual and screen cultures. Bringing together essays on filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, multi-media artists and student protestors, Haddu and Thornton make a remarkable contribution to understandings of representations of traumatic moments (1968, 1994 2006 and 2012) in Mexico's past. -- Dolores Tierney, University of SussexMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
16 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8054-3 (9781474480543)
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Persons
Dr Niamh Thornton is Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool. Dr Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen CultureNiamh Thornton
1. On the Commemoration of Mexico '68: Los agachados de Rius, numero especial de los cocolazos de julio-agosto-septiembre y octubre quien sabe si tambor...Chris Harris
2. 1976 and 1968: Felipe Cazals and Servando Gonzalez Grapple with the Aftermath and the ArchiveNiamh Thornton
3. Spectres of Mexico's 'Dirty Wars: Gendered Haunting and the Legacy of Women's Armed Resistance in Mexican Documentary FilmViviana MacManus
4. Stages for an Assassination: Roles of Cinematic Landscape in Jorge Fons' El atentado (2010) and Carlos Bolado's Colosio: el asesinato (2012)Maximiliano Maza-Perez
5. Aliens as Superheroes: Science Fiction, Immigration and the Photography of Dulce PinzonCatherine Leen
6. #YoSoy132 as a Continuation of the 1968 LegacyJessica Wax-Edwards
7. Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo's Ausencias (2015)Miriam Haddu
8. Teresa Margolles' Work with Space: Ruins, Resonances and the Echo of the AbsentJulia Banwell
Notes on the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen CultureNiamh Thornton
1. On the Commemoration of Mexico '68: Los agachados de Rius, numero especial de los cocolazos de julio-agosto-septiembre y octubre quien sabe si tambor...Chris Harris
2. 1976 and 1968: Felipe Cazals and Servando Gonzalez Grapple with the Aftermath and the ArchiveNiamh Thornton
3. Spectres of Mexico's 'Dirty Wars: Gendered Haunting and the Legacy of Women's Armed Resistance in Mexican Documentary FilmViviana MacManus
4. Stages for an Assassination: Roles of Cinematic Landscape in Jorge Fons' El atentado (2010) and Carlos Bolado's Colosio: el asesinato (2012)Maximiliano Maza-Perez
5. Aliens as Superheroes: Science Fiction, Immigration and the Photography of Dulce PinzonCatherine Leen
6. #YoSoy132 as a Continuation of the 1968 LegacyJessica Wax-Edwards
7. Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo's Ausencias (2015)Miriam Haddu
8. Teresa Margolles' Work with Space: Ruins, Resonances and the Echo of the AbsentJulia Banwell
Notes on the Contributors