Bodies of Water - Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

About the author

Geoffrey Maguire is Associate Professor of Spanish at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture and coeditor (with Rachel Randall) of New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Maguire
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2025
• EAN: 9781438499185
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9918-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, History of the Americas, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film production: technical & background skills, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics