Inela Selimović – författare

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They also signal these filmmakers’ novel insights on complex manifestations of memory, desire, and violence. The chapters explore how the presence of pronounced—but reticent—affect complicates emotional bonding in the everydayness depicted in these films. By bringing out moments of affect in these filmmakers’ diegetic worlds, this book traces the ways in which subtle foci on gender, class, race, and sexuality correlate in these Argentine women’s films.

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They also signal these filmmakers’ novel insights on complex manifestations of memory, desire, and violence. The chapters explore how the presence of pronounced—but reticent—affect complicates emotional bonding in the everydayness depicted in these films. By bringing out moments of affect in these filmmakers’ diegetic worlds, this book traces the ways in which subtle foci on gender, class, race, and sexuality correlate in these Argentine women’s films.

The Cinema of Paula Markovitch investigates the director's explorations of differently marginalized dwellers and their sensescapes as a vital feature of her oeuvre. By inviting the viewer into the socioemotional layers of homeless sites, hospice-like spaces, assisted-suicide intersubjectivities, and political displacements, Markovitch revitalizes the complexity of the margins in novel and expansive ways. Such dynamically intertwined socioemotional and sensory engagements at and with the margins are conceptualized in the book as contested marginality. This concept refers to the complexly interpersonal and ostensibly unanticipated manifestations of agentic potential through sensory experiences in peripheric sites and circumstances. Such aesthetic considerations of the margins also bring to light fecund modes for broader sociocultural critiques in Markovitch's films.

The Cinema of Paula Markovitch investigates the director's explorations of differently marginalized dwellers and their sensescapes as a vital feature of her oeuvre. By inviting the viewer into the socioemotional layers of homeless sites, hospice-like spaces, assisted-suicide intersubjectivities, and political displacements, Markovitch revitalizes the complexity of the margins in novel and expansive ways. Such dynamically intertwined socioemotional and sensory engagements at and with the margins are conceptualized in the book as contested marginality. This concept refers to the complexly interpersonal and ostensibly unanticipated manifestations of agentic potential through sensory experiences in peripheric sites and circumstances. Such aesthetic considerations of the margins also bring to light fecund modes for broader sociocultural critiques in Markovitch's films.

The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the “affective turn” in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks specifically at the intersection between cultural constructions of childhood and the affective turn within the contemporary sociopolitical landscape of Latin America. The editors and contributors share a common aim in furthering comprehension of the particular intensity of the child’s affective presence—spectatorial, haptic, silent, and spectral, among others—in contemporary Latin American cultural expression. The contributions herein approach this theoretical challenge through an interdisciplinary lens which brings together two burgeoning strands of inquiry. The first is the notion of childhood as a significant, and inherently political, sociocultural space; the second is the recognition that affect is integral and fundamental to gaining a more complex understanding of the manner in which contemporary social worlds are made. In each case, this affective presence is teased out as a register of society, shedding light on the issues marking out the current sociopolitical landscape—in particular the traces of the recent past—in the regions represented. This book brings together established international scholars and young academics focusing on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Peru.

Inusuales: hogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano apunta hacia diversas muestras del cine hispano para explorar su denominador principal —lo inusual— cuya presencia, en última instancia, genera críticas sociopolíticas y culturales acerca de los contextos que las inspiran. Aunque responden a contextos culturales diferentes, los ensayos enfatizan ciertos comportamientos, subjetividades y emociones en común que se rebelan contra lo aceptable o lo normativo de maneras suma y sutilmente transgresoras. Como resultado palpable en este estudio, se desvela la tendencia a armar historias donde los protagonistas optan divergentemente por lo liminal y lo poco visible socialmente, solo para hacer resaltar la crítica hacia lo sumamente visible, lo asfixiantemente normativo y lo frecuentemente opresor.Si bien las tres categorías conceptuales —el hogar, la sexualidad y la política— emergen como el eje principal de Inusuales, su otro hilo latente se alberga en las aproximaciones cinematográficas a las emociones y, en menor medida, a las tendencias afectivas. El despliegue de lo emocional desde luego surge tenuemente en estas cintas para facilitar, complicar, e inclusive subrayar, las interacciones intersubjetivas de éxitos, fracasos o regeneraciones dentro y, particularmente, fuera de los espacios hogareños convencionales, así como alejados de las relaciones impuestas por las dinámicas de políticas patriarcales. La dinámica emocional en cada película, cuya intensidad se revela de manera singular y resueltamente descentrada, se debe principalmente a las fragmentaciones intersubjetivas que las reflejan. Dichas fragmentaciones casi siempre se encuentran arraigadas a ultranza en lo socialmente poco normativo —la habilidad de relacionarse con el otro plena, esporádica o accidentalmente y así encolerizar el heteropatriarcado a través de ciertas convergencias político-hogareñas y de sexualidad— que además revela y reajusta la multidimensionalidad relacional que rige lo inusual.