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Bodies of Water

Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvGeoffrey Maguire

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Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleHonorable Mention, for the 2025 British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies Best Publication PrizeRivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water's queer cinematic potential, Bodies of Water proposes that we think not only about water but also through it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. Bodies of Water engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, Bodies of Water ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what's so queer about cinematic waters?

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-02
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Latin American Cinema
Antal sidor214
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438499185

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Beyond Fluidity1. The Queer Art of Feeling: Fluid Futurities, Fin de siglo, and New Queer Realism2. On the Shores of Adulthood: Queer Adolescence and the Fallacy of Fluidity in Contemporary Brazilian Film3. The Coast Is Queer: Visibility and the Queer (Trans)National in Contracorriente and Praia do Futuro4. Slow Waters: Marco Berger's Taekwondo and the Queer Erotics of Boredom5. Postporn Flows: Las hijas del fuego and the Queer Poetics of Sexual PleasureCoda: After XXYNotesBibliographyIndex

"Concise, poignant, and sophisticated, Maguire's book will be a valuable contribution to cinema and media studies in general and Latin American queer studies in particular." — H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)"A major contribution, Bodies of Water conjugates Latin American queer cinema studies and the blue humanities in ways that are illuminating and transformational. Lucid and fluid throughout, with nuanced and detailed film analyses, the book enriches our understanding of the queer aquatic poetics of alterity, identity, belonging, and more." — Juli A. Kroll, author of Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin American Cinema: Insurgent Skin