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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:31st 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 Otom (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzn, 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.

ISBN: 9781474480536

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 442g

200 pages