Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema

Carolyn Fornoff is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gisela Heffes is Associate Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at Rice University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Latin American Cinema Beyond the HumanCarolyn Fornoff and Gisela HeffesPart I: Genre Beyond the Human 1. Movies on the Move: Filming the Amazon RainforestPatrícia Vieira2. Visualizing the Geosphere: The 1985 Earthquake in Mexican CinemaCarolyn Fornoff3. Revisiting Nature and Documenting the Americas: From Alexander von Humboldt to the Contemporary Latin American DocumentaryJuana New4. Slow Violence in the Slow Cinema of Lisandro AlonsoAmanda Eaton McMenaminPart II: Encountering Difference 5. Humanimal Assemblages: Slaughters in Latin American Left-Wing CinemaMoira Fradinger6. Reordering Material Hierarchies in Jossie Malis Álvarez's Animated Series, Bendito MachineKatherine Bundy7. Mapping Queer Natures in Papu Curotto's EsterosVinodh Venkatesh8. Counterflows: Hydraulic Order and Residual Ecologies in Caribbean Fantasy LandscapesLisa Blackmore9. Differential Viscosities: The Material Hermeneutics of Blood, Oil, and Water in Crude and The Blood of Kouan KouanMark AndersonPart III: Screening the Pluriverse 10. Human Rights at the End of the World: Patricio Guzmán and the "Imperative to Reimagine the Planet"Fernando J. Rosenberg11. Sea Turtles and Seascapes: Representing Human-Nature Relations in the Central American CaribbeanMauricio Espinoza and Tomás Emilio Arce12. Refracting Lenses on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua: Documenting Social Ecologies and Biospheres in El ojo del tiburón and El canto de BosawasJulia M. Medina13. The Sacred Space of Motoapohua: Intercorporeal Animality and National Subjectivities in Nicolás Echevarría's Eco de la montañaIván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou14. Undisciplined Knowledge: Indigenous Activism and Decapitation ResistanceGisela HeffesContributorsIndex