[ecrea] New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film

*New Maricón Cinema***

*Outing Latin American Film***

/Vinodh Venkatesh/

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such 
as /XXY/, /Contracorriente/, and /Plan B /create an affective and bodily 
connection with viewers that elicits in them an emotive and empathic 
relationship with queer identities. Referring to these films as /New 
Maricón Cinema/, Vinodh Venkatesh argues that they represent a distinct 
break from what he terms Maricón Cinema, or a cinema that deals with sex 
and gender difference through an ethically and visually disaffected 
position, exemplified in films such as /Fresa y chocolate/, /No se lo 
digas a nadie,/ and /El lugar sin límites./

Covering feature films from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, 
Peru, the United States, and Venezuela, /New Maricón Cinema/ is the 
first study to contextualize and analyze recent 
homo-/trans-/intersexed-themed cinema in Latin America within a broader 
historical and aesthetic genealogy. Working with theories of affect, 
circulation, and orientations, Venkatesh examines key scenes in the work 
of auteurs such as Marco Berger, Javier Fuentes-León, and Julia 
Solomonoff and in films including /Antes que anochezca/ and/Y tu mamá 
también /to show how their use of an affective poetics situates and 
regenerates viewers in an ethically productive cinematic space. He 
further demonstrates that /New Maricón Cinema/ has encouraged the 
production of “gay friendly” commercial films for popular audiences, 
which reflects wider sociocultural changes regarding gender difference 
and civil rights that are occurring in Latin America.

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