{"product_id":"cinema-as-infrastructure-adriana-michele-campos-johnson-9781477335833","title":"Cinema as Infrastructure: Visuality, Power, and the Latin American South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the interplay of visuality and infrastructure in Latin American films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImages do far more than we realize. They do not simply represent or depict; they run our world. Surveillance cameras and drones, medical imaging, social media platforms, market-data visualization--these and other technologies make the image an infrastructure of power, a tool for organizing and governing, impressing labor and extracting value.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdriana Johnson draws on the medium of film to sensitize us to the logics of visuality as a technology of power. In particular, Latin American cinema presents a key site for both crystallizing and retreating from these logics. Through close readings of Argentine, Paraguayan, and Brazilian movies--including the documentary \u003ci\u003eBus 174\u003c\/i\u003e, the dystopian sci-fi \u003ci\u003eThe Aerial\u003c\/i\u003e, and the farcical \u003ci\u003eThe Gold Bug\u003c\/i\u003e--Johnson shows how filmmakers can amplify or attenuate the infrastructural reach of visuality. They also reveal visuality's otherwise-submerged power, and even engage in something like piracy: hacking into, rerouting, and deconstituting the workings of visual infrastructures. A deeply insightful and theoretically rich account, \u003ci\u003eCinema as Infrastructure\u003c\/i\u003e reframes the political stakes of filmmaking in an era when visual forms have become means of production and order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adriana Michele Campos Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477335838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477335833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Adriana Michele Campos Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50663685882111,"sku":"9781477335833","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinema-as-infrastructure-adriana-michele-campos-johnson-9781477335833","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}