Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474480536)

Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces.With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomí (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.

Author: Niamh Thornton
ISBN-10: 1474480535
ISBN-13: 9781474480536
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d