Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema)

By: Geoffrey Maguire

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Synopsis: Rivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water's queer cinematic potential, Bodies of Water proposes that we think not only about water but also through it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. Bodies of Water engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, Bodies of Water ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what's so queer about cinematic waters?

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 214 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781438499192
Related ISBNs:: 9781438499178, 9781438499185
Publisher:: State University of New York Press
Date of Addition:: 09/01/24
Copyrighted By:: State University of New York
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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