{"product_id":"bodies-of-water-queer-aesthetics-in-contemporary-latin-american-cinema-9781438499178","title":"Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema","description":"Rivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water's queer cinematic potential, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that we think not only \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e water but also \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what's so queer about cinematic waters?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Maguire \u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Spanish at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with Rachel Randall) of \u003ci\u003eNew Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929068212498,"sku":"9781438499178","price":103.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63aa440a-952e-42d1-8ab5-315de5bf9d60.jpg?v=1739031042","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bodies-of-water-queer-aesthetics-in-contemporary-latin-american-cinema-9781438499178","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}