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More or less dead feminicide, haunting, and the ethics of representation in Mexico
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Title
More or less dead [electronic resource] : feminicide, haunting, and the ethics of representation in Mexico / Alice Driver.
ISBN
081650184X
9780816501847
0816531161
9780816531165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"Through interviews with filmmakers, photographers, artists, and writers, this book analyzes how victims of gender violence have been represented in the mainstream media and how a number of writers, filmmakers, and artists work against this trope to humanize the victims of these crimes"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Global Cultural Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface : disappearances have to disappear
Introduction : feminicide and memory creation
Interview : photographer Julián Cardona on Juárez and the limits of photography
Monuments, memorials, graffiti, and street art : memory creation in an apocalyptic landscape
Interview : writer Charles Bowden on feminicide and the asethetics of violence in Juárez
More or less dead : literary representations of feminicide in Juárez : the laboratory of our future
Interview : filmmaker Ursula Biemann on feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
Representations of feminicide in documentary film : searching for ecotestimonios
Interview : writer and filmmaker Mario Bellatin on dark humor and the horror of postmodernity
The death of humanity and the human
Epilogue : salvaging the luminosity of a lost city.
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