ABSTRACT

Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas rethinks the intersection between violence and its gendered representation.

This is a groundbreaking contribution to the international debate on the cinematic construction of gender-based violence. With essays from diverse cultural backgrounds and institutions, this collection analyzes a wide range of films across Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The volume makes use of varied perspectives including feminist, postcolonial, and queer theory to consider such issues as the visual configuration of power and inequality, the objectification and the invisibilization of women’s and LGBTQ subjects’ resistance, the role of female film-makers in transforming hegemonic accounts of violence, and the subversion of common tropes of gendered violence.

This will be of significance for students and scholars in Latin American and Iberian studies, as well as in film studies, cultural studies, and gender and queer studies.

chapter |6 pages

Screening counter-violence

An introduction to giving account beyond memories of trauma

part I|66 pages

Memories of gender resistance against violence

chapter 1|17 pages

Female bodies on Lisbon’s margins

Space, embodiment and (dis)possession in Alda e Maria (Pocas Pascoal, 2011)

chapter 4|14 pages

Renouncing violence

Terrorism and feminisation in Basque cinema

part II|34 pages

Gender violence and agency

part III|51 pages

The chiaroscuros of witnessing gender violence

part IV|32 pages

Gender violence across geographical borders

chapter 11|15 pages

From cinema to the live regime

Pedagogies of cruelty and social anesthesia in two Latin American movies *