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[ecrea] New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film

Tue Oct 18 17:05:07 GMT 2016



*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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