Overview

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 Otom (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzn, 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.

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Author:   Niamh Thornton (Reader, University of Liverpool.) ,  Miriam Haddu (Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9781474480536

ISBN 10:   1474480535
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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, número especial de los cocolazos de julio-agosto-septiembre y octubre quién sabe si tambor...Chris Harris 2. 1976 and 1968: Felipe Cazals and Servando González 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-Pérez 5. Aliens as Superheroes: Science Fiction, Immigration and the Photography of Dulce PinzónCatherine 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

Reviews

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 Sussex This excellent collection will therefore be of particular interest to scholars and students seeking to understand more about how the different layers of Mexico's troubled past half-century interconnect with and speak to one another across the decades. --David Conlon ""Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies""

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 Sussex

Author Information

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

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