Queer issues in contemporary Latin American cinema
Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antihe…
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- Full title :Queer issues in contemporary Latin American cinema / David William Foster.
Summary
Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring issues of gender identity and sexual difference, as well as the homophobia that attempts to defeat any challenge to the heterosexual norms of patriarchal culture. In this study of queer issues in Latin American cinema, David William Foster offers highly perceptive queer readings of fourteen key films to demonstrate how these cultural products promote the principles of an antiheterosexist stance while they simultaneously disclose how homophobia enforces the norms of heterosexuality. Foster examines each film in terms of the ideology of its narrative discourse, whether homoerotic desire or a critique of patriarchal heterosexism and its implications for Latin American social life and human rights. His analyses underscore the difficulties involved in constructing a coherent and convincing treatment of the complex issues involved in critiquing the patriarchy from perspectives associated with queer studies. The book will be essential reading for everyone working in queer studies and film studies.
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- Publication Date:©2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Texas Press
- Place of Publication:Austin, Tex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 186 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0292798695, 9780292798694
- oclc:ocm55697718
- LC Classification:PN1995.9.H55
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/653
Table of Contents
Introit: Queer Difference -- Homosexuality: In and Out of the Closet -- Political Intersections -- Forging Queer Spaces -- Queer Transcendence.
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