Dr. Juli A. Kroll is Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she also directs the Film Studies program. Dr. Kroll teaches Latin American literature, culture, and film studies. Her research focuses on Latin American cultural production, with emphasis on gender and sexualities.

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• 1. Introduction: The Naked Truth: Body, Gender and Sexuality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema.- 2. Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy  .- 3. The Lesbian Utopia of Albertina Carri’s Las hijas del fuego (2018).- 4. Non-Binary: Gender Trouble and Intersex Bodies in Latin American Cinema.- 5. The Female Body as Absence: Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo (2016) and Ayer maravilla fui by Gabriel Mariño (2017) .- 6. Embodied Existence as Resistance: The Transgender Body as Political Protest.- 7. Nudity and Social Protest in Latin America: Artivism’s Filmed Effects.- 8. Conclusion.

Dr. Juli A. Kroll is Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she also directs the Film Studies program. Dr. Kroll teaches Latin American literature, culture, and film studies. Her research focuses on Latin American cultural production, with emphasis on gender and sexualities.

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• 1. Introduction: The Naked Truth: Body, Gender and Sexuality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema.- 2. Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy  .- 3. The Lesbian Utopia of Albertina Carri’s Las hijas del fuego (2018).- 4. Non-Binary: Gender Trouble and Intersex Bodies in Latin American Cinema.- 5. The Female Body as Absence: Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo (2016) and Ayer maravilla fui by Gabriel Mariño (2017) .- 6. Embodied Existence as Resistance: The Transgender Body as Political Protest.- 7. Nudity and Social Protest in Latin America: Artivism’s Filmed Effects.- 8. Conclusion.

Dr. Juli A. Kroll is Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she also directs the Film Studies program. Dr. Kroll teaches Latin American literature, culture, and film studies. Her research focuses on Latin American cultural production, with emphasis on gender and sexualities.

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• 1. Introduction: The Naked Truth: Body, Gender and Sexuality in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema.- 2. Lesbian Pathology and Monstrous Maternity in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy  .- 3. The Lesbian Utopia of Albertina Carri’s Las hijas del fuego (2018).- 4. Non-Binary: Gender Trouble and Intersex Bodies in Latin American Cinema.- 5. The Female Body as Absence: Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo (2016) and Ayer maravilla fui by Gabriel Mariño (2017) .- 6. Embodied Existence as Resistance: The Transgender Body as Political Protest.- 7. Nudity and Social Protest in Latin America: Artivism’s Filmed Effects.- 8. Conclusion.