Despite All Adversities - Spanish-american Queer Cinema

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Despite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America's most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's and Juan Carlos Tabío's Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993), Marcelo Piñeyro's Plata quemada (Burnt Money, 2000), Barbet Schroeder's La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000), Lucía Puenzo's XXY (XXY, 2007), Francisco J. Lombardi's No se lo digas a nadie (Don't Tell Anyone, 1998), Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites (Hell Without Limits, 1978), among others. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.

About the author

Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Romance Studies and of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the coauthor (with María-Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) of Border Women: Writing from La Frontera.

Product details

• Authors: Debra A. Castillo, Andres Lema-Hincapie, AndrTs (EDT)/ Castillo Lema-hincapiT
• Assisted by: Debra A Castillo (Editor), Debra A. Castillo (Editor), Andres Lema-Hincapie (Editor), Andrés Lema-Hincapié (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781438459110
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5911-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Gl; Suny Series, Genders in the Gl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories