• Landscapes of Disappearance

    Author(s):
    Edwin Culp (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Film-Philosophy, Film Studies, Latin America and the Caribbean
    Subject(s):
    Motion pictures--Philosophy, Violence
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Landscape art, Film theory
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bg6v-4h47
    Abstract:
    I analyze the strategies used in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz 2010), Enrique Buchichio’s Behind the Truth (Zanahoria 2014) and Nicolas Pereda’s Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliath 2010) to expose the political uses of landscape images in concealing and reconstructing forced disappearances and the violence surrounding them. I set these films against 19th century paintings by Jose Maria Velasco in Mexico, Alejandro Ciccarelli in Chile, Ricardo Borrero in Colombia and Juan Manuel Blanes in Uruguay, which present the territories of the young nations stripped from the struggles and the heroes that brought them to independence; and are instead tamed by the gaze of the painter, showing their land as ready to be exploited. Their contrast makes for a montage of the ways territory, extraction and repressive violence has crossed Latin American history for the last 150 years.
    Notes:
    This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Performance Research on 17 February 2020 available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/13528165.2019.1717860. Please refer and quote the published article.
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1080/13528165.2019.1717860
    Publisher:
    Informa UK Limited
    Pub. Date:
    2020-2-17
    Journal:
    Performance Research
    Volume:
    24
    Issue:
    7
    Page Range:
    16 - 22
    ISSN:
    1352-8165,1469-9990
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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