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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| Language: | English |
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Tucson :
The University of Arizona Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
