{"product_id":"bodies-of-water-geoffrey-maguire-9781438499185","title":"Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRivers, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438499183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438499185\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 03\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Geoffrey Maguire","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46685858005247,"sku":"9781438499185","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfe5e823-ec19-4439-8a8d-5bcfc167bab3.jpg?v=1741726981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bodies-of-water-geoffrey-maguire-9781438499185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}