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More or Less Dead : Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico /

"Through interviews with filmmakers, photographers, artists, and writers, this book analyzes how victims of gender violence have been represented in the mainstream media and how a number of writers, filmmakers, and artists work against this trope to humanize the victims of these crimes"--P...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Driver, Alice (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface : disappearances have to disappear
  • Introduction : feminicide and memory creation
  • Interview : photographer Julián Cardona on Juárez and the limits of photography
  • Monuments, memorials, graffiti, and street art : memory creation in an apocalyptic landscape
  • Interview : writer Charles Bowden on feminicide and the asethetics of violence in Juárez
  • More or less dead : literary representations of feminicide in Juárez : the laboratory of our future
  • Interview : filmmaker Ursula Biemann on feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
  • Representations of feminicide in documentary film : searching for ecotestimonios
  • Interview : writer and filmmaker Mario Bellatin on dark humor and the horror of postmodernity
  • The death of humanity and the human
  • Epilogue : salvaging the luminosity of a lost city.