New Maricón Cinema : : Outing Latin American Film / / Vinodh Venkatesh.

• VerfasserIn: Venkatesh, Vinodh,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as New Maricón Cinema, Vinodh Venkatesh argues that they represent a distinct break from what he terms Maricón Cinema, or a cinema that deals with sex and gender difference through an ethically and visually disaffected position, exemplified in films such as Fresa y chocolate, No se lo digas a nadie, and El lugar sin límites. Covering feature films from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Venezuela, New Maricón Cinema is the first study to contextualize and analyze recent homo-/trans-/intersexed-themed cinema in Latin America within a broader historical and aesthetic genealogy. Working with theories of affect, circulation, and orientations, Venkatesh examines key scenes in the work of auteurs such as Marco Berger, Javier Fuentes-León, and Julia Solomonoff and in films including Antes que anochezca and Y tu mamá también to show how their use of an affective poetics situates and regenerates viewers in an ethically productive cinematic space. He further demonstrates that New Maricón Cinema has encouraged the production of “gay friendly” commercial films for popular audiences, which reflects wider sociocultural changes regarding gender difference and civil rights that are occurring in Latin America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Maricón Cinema -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Ficheras and Jotos in Mexican Cinema: We Just Want to Be Seen -- Chapter Two. The Maricón: On Closets and Spectacular Bodies -- Chapter Three. Final Notes on a Maricón Genre -- Part II: New Maricón Cinema -- Chapter Four. Outing Contracorriente: On Spatial Contracts and Feeling New Maricónness -- Chapter Five. Outing El último verano de la Boyita: On Masculinities and the Moment of Engagement -- Chapter Six. XX- -- Chapter Seven. Final Notes on Outing Latin America -- Part III: Rematerializing Bodies and the Urban Space -- Introduction -- Chapter Eight. Plan B: Let’s Go Back to the City -- Chapter Nine. On Children and Neoliberal Structures of Feeling -- Chapter Ten. Closing Notes on a Very Open Field -- Films Discussed -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index