Overview

The topic of the crisis and recovery of utopia, at both a global and regional level, stands out in these melancholic times in which the capitalist era can no longer legitimize itself as an irreplaceable form of social existence. This book reflects upon the place of utopia, moving from classic Greece to the neoliberal era, specifically as manifested in Latin America. It studies utopia as a political and literary device for paradigmatic changes. As such, it links with the literary mode of the travelogue and its supporting role in the consolidation and perpetuation of the modern/colonial discourse. The book reviews critical approaches to modernity and postmodernity as a philosophical enquiry on the role of symbolic languages, particularly the one played by the image and the theories of representation and performance. With that, and by using decolonialist theory to inform an audio-visual text analysis, it contributes to film philosophy with a model of analysis for Latin American cinema: namely, ""the allegory of the motionless traveler"". This model states that Latin America millennial cinema possesses a significant aesthetic-political power achieved by enacting a process of utopic re-narration. This book will appeal to students and academics in the humanities and social sciences and readers interested in film culture, as well as those searching specifically for new perspectives on socio-symbolic decolonialist dynamics operating at the crossroads of cultural politics and political culture in Latin America.

Full Product Details

9781527514065

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Carla Grosman is a researcher whose cross-cultural approach is founded on a heterogeneous background that includes performing arts, filmmaking and Latin American cultural studies. She received a BA Hons. in Film Studies from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2000, before obtaining an MA and a PhD in Spanish from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 and 2013 respectively. Currently, she works in the Department of Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, looking at the potential of community amateur cinema in Argentina for the advancement of cultural democratization. Her publications observe contemporary Latin American cinema at the crossroads of cultural politics and political culture. She focuses on technical and rhetorical strategies used by Latin American cinema to approach and intervene in socio-cultural problematics within a global geopolitical framework.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available