{"product_id":"bodies-of-water-geoffrey-maguire-9781438499178","title":"Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema","description":"Rivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water's queer cinematic potential, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that we think not only \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e water but also \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what's so queer about cinematic waters?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438499175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438499178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Geoffrey Maguire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45934266450175,"sku":"9781438499178","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a713d774-d749-47ca-ad60-e764519f143a.jpg?v=1721790753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bodies-of-water-geoffrey-maguire-9781438499178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}