Legacies of the Past
Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures
Niamh Thornton editor Miriam Haddu editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:15th Dec '20
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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.
Legacies of the Past offers a timely examination of the ways memory and trauma dominate Mexican visual and screen cultures. Bringing together essays on filmmakers, photographers, cartoonists, multi-media artists and student protestors, Haddu and Thornton make a remarkable contribution to understandings of representations of traumatic moments (1968, 1994 2006 and 2012) in Mexico’s past. -- Dolores Tierney, University of Sussex
This excellent collection will therefore be of particular interest to scholars and students seeking to understand more about how the different layers of Mexico’s troubled past half-century interconnect with and speak to one another across the decades. -- David Conlon * Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies *
ISBN: 9781474480536
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 442g
200 pages