More or less dead : feminicide, haunting, and the ethics of representation in Mexico / Alice Driver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driver, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Women.

Homicide--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Homicide.

Victims of crimes in mass media.

Women--Crimes against.

Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Physical Description:

xxi, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, © 2015.

Summary:

"Through interviews with filmmakers, photographers, artists, and writers, this book analyzes how victims of gender violence have been represented in the mainstream media and how a number of writers, filmmakers, and artists work against this trope to humanize the victims of these crimes"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : disappearances have to disappear

Introduction : feminicide and memory creation

Interview : photographer Julián Cardona on Juárez and the limits of photography

Monuments, memorials, graffiti, and street art : memory creation in an apocalyptic landscape

Interview : writer Charles Bowden on feminicide and the asethetics of violence in Juárez

More or less dead : literary representations of feminicide in Juárez : the laboratory of our future

Interview : filmmaker Ursula Biemann on feminicide in Ciudad Juárez

Representations of feminicide in documentary film : searching for ecotestimonios

Interview : writer and filmmaker Mario Bellatin on dark humor and the horror of postmodernity

The death of humanity and the human

Epilogue : salvaging the luminosity of a lost city.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816531165

0816531161

OCLC:

894747943