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Girlhood and the Uncanny in the Coming-of-Age Genre: Abrir puertas y ventanas (dir. Milagros Mumenthaler, 2011) and Mamá, mamá, mamá (dir. Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, 2020)
Daniel Mourenza compares the debut films of both Milagros Mumenthaler, Abrir puertas y ventanas/Back to Stay (2011), and Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière,...
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Chilean Film Festivals and Local Audiences: Going Online?
This chapter reviews the impact of the global pandemic of Covid-19 on Chilean film festivals and how this affected their relationship with local...
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Tragedy and Social Exclusion
In this chapter I question whether the tragic circumstances in which the characters in Deprisa, deprisa (Carlos Saura, 1981) and La buena estrella...
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The politics of resilience and resistance: Health care access and undocumented Mexican motherhood in the United States
This article explores the effect of an undocumented status in sha** narratives of resilience, emotional expression and maternal sentiment among...
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Child Death in Buenos Aires viceversa, La vendedora de rosas and La mujer sin cabeza
In Latin American cinema, the depiction of street children and slum children has a long history stretching back to Luis Buñuel’s Los olvidados. This...
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Heroic and Empathic Rescuers in Foundational Migrant Melodrama
This chapter introduces Bishop Giovanni Batista Scalabrini and the order he founded, known as the Scalabrinians, as an early example of melodrama in...
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Periodical Press: Faith and Knowledge in the Mercurio Peruano
The chapter addresses the “Catholic Enlightenment” through a reading of eighteenth-century Peruvian periodical the Mercurio Peruano. It analyses the...
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Odd Bedfellows? US Pub(l)ic Diplomacy, Colombian Industry Policy, and Sex Tourism in Cartagena
The informal economy, public diplomacy, sexualized national imagery, and efforts to dynamize Colombia’s tourism industry through rebranding are...
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On the Affective Politics of Cosmopolitanism: African Migration, Lavapiés, and the Domestic Realm in Lucía Etxebarría’s Cosmofobia (2007)
This chapter uses feminist geography to analyze Lucía Etxebarría’s 2007 novel, Cosmofobia. Specifically, the author examines the positioning of...
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The Child as Paraguay’s Future: “Calle Última (2010), Mita´í (2011), and 7 cajas (2012)”
This Chapter describes the political climate of Paraguay following the 2008 election of Fernando Lugo and his lightning-swift impeachment in 2012,...
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Children of Exile: Trauma, Memory and Testimony in Jaime Camino’s Documentary Los niños de Rusia (2001)
As I have been reflecting on how to engage both phenomenologically and conceptually with Jaime Camino’s documentary about war and exile,1 as...
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Acevedo and His Predecessors
In Peru, most of the stereotypes and conventions in graphics were built in spaces set aside for humor. Inside these spaces, comics accomplished a...