Legacies of the Past

Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Cultures

Niamh Thornton, Miriam Haddu

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474480550
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces. With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomí (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzón, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The conbtributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Screen Culture
• 1 On the Commemoration of Mexico ’68: Los agachados de Rius, número especial de los cocolazos de julio-agosto-septiembre y octubre quién sabe si tambor . . .
• 2 Felipe Cazals and Servando González Grapple with the Aftermath and the Archive: 1976 and 1968
• 3 Spectres of Mexico’s ‘Dirty Wars’: Gendered Haunting and the Legacy of Women’s Armed Resistance in Mexican Documentary Film
• 4 Stages for an Assassination: Roles of Cinematic Landscape in Jorge Fons’ El atentado (2010) and Carlos Bolado’s Colosio: el asesinato (2012)
• 5 Aliens as Superheroes: Science Fiction, Immigration and Dulce Pinzón’s ‘The Real Story of the Superheroes’
• 6 #YoSoy132 as a Continuation of the 1968 Legacy
• 7 Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo’s Ausencias (2015)
• 8 Teresa Margolles’ Work with Space: Ruins, Resonances and the Echo of the Absent
• Index