Insurgent Skin: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema argues that twenty-first century Latin American cinema about lesbian, feminist, intersex, and transgender themes is revolutionary because it disrupts heteronormative and binary representation and explores new, queer signifying modes.
Grounded in feminist and queer theory, Insurgent Skin conjugates film phenomenology and theories of affect and embodiment to analyze a spectrum of Latin American films.
The first chapters explore queer signifying in Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel’s Salta trilogy and the lesbian utopia of Albertina Carri’s Las hijas del fuego (2018). Next, the book discusses the female body as uncanny absence in Tatiana Huezo’s documentary Tempestad (2016), a film about gendered violence in Mexico. Chapter Five focuses on intersex films and the establishing of queer solidarity and an intersex gaze. The last chapter examines transgender embodiment in the Chilean film Una mujer fantástica (2017) and Brazilian documentary Bixa Travesty (2018).
Author(s): Juli A. Kroll
Series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 253
City: Cham
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
A Revolution of Queer Signifying
Intersex Signifying at the Margin
Poetic Documentary and Bodily Absence
Trans Embodiment in Chile and Brazil
Works Cited
Chapter 2: Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy
Locating Martel: The Nexus of New Queer Cinema and New Argentine Cinema
New Queer Argentine Cinema
The Salta Trilogy
Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in La ciénaga (2001)
Disrupting the Heteronormative Gaze in La niña santa (2004)
Into the Interstitial Space: La mujer sin cabeza (2008)
Works Cited
Chapter 3: The Lesbian Utopia of Albertina Carri’s Las hijas del fuego (2018)
Albertina Carri as Unbounded Auteur
Theorizing the Gaze and Claiming Porn as a Feminist Space
Feminism, Lesbian Utopia, and Queer Space/Time in Las hijas del fuego
The Establishing of an Atavistic Avatar: The Queer, Primordial Primogenitor
Passing the Generative Fire to a New Generation of Daughters
Lunch on the Grass: Pastoral Scenes and Body Inclusivity
Composing the Fourth Wall and a Diegetic Voyeur
Feminist Solidarity: Lesbians Unite to Liberate a Heterosexual Sister
Temporal Drag, Ironic Use of the Phallus
Inter-Generational Feminism, Orgiastic Arrested Teleology, Narrative Apotheosis in a Queer Space and Time
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Non-Binary: Gender Trouble and Intersex Bodies in Latin American Cinema
Intersex as a Medical and Sociocultural Category
International Movement for Intersex Rights
Portrait of a Woman on Fire: Both by Lisset Barcellos (2005)
Children of Kraken: XXY (Dir. Lucía Puenzo, 2007)
Molting Sex and Gender in El último verano de la Boyita (Dir. Julia Solomonoff, 2009)
Yo, imposible (Dir. Patricia Ortega, 2018) as Out Kinship
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Prosthetic Memory and Uncanny Absence: The Female Body in Tempestad (2016) by Tatiana Huezo
An Epidemic of Violence
Plural Documentary Styles Amplify Affect
Setting the Stage for Memory as a Function of Affect
Theorizing Prosthetic Memory
Witnessing the Uncanny, The Female Body as Absence
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Embodied Existence as Resistance: The Transgender Body in Una mujer fantástica (2017) and Bixa Travesty (2018)
Trans Rights in Latin America
The Trans Body in Una mujer fantástica (2017)
Classical Cinema as Audience Seduction
Trans Embodiment, Defying Stereotypes and Transphobia
Queer Space/Time and Liminal Contact Zones in Una mujer fantástica
Queer Passing, Ghosting, and the Transgender Look
Trans Body and Transfeminism in Bixa Travesty (2018)
Works Cited
Index
