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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-0184-X

OCLC:

903621122