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Legacies of the Past

J. Binney

Published 2020 in Unknown venue

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Riven with unresolved traumas the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture, because the political process has attempted to erase or appropriate their significance. Without consensus and/or a clearly defined narrative, these events act like spectres haunting the present. In order to comprehend how they manifest, this collection looks at a selection of traumas that haunt the present and consider how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding the haunted spaces. Their explorations, imaginings, and counter-imaginings of the past bring the spectres to the foreground and create new narratives and, thus, propose new histories. This book explores the (audio)visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history in order to comprehend how storytelling and narrative matters for a shared understanding of ourselves. This book considers the ways memory and trauma dominate Mexican visual and screen cultures and how their ghosts are attached to specific locales and moments.

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