Title: Latin American popular culture : politics, media, affect /
Authors: Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey,; O'Bryen, Rory,; Kantaris, Elia Geoffrey,; O'Bryen, Rory,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Popular culture Latin America
Abstract: Explores a wide range of cultural phenomena to examine both national symbolic orders and national/global tensions resulting from a climate of conflicting economic and political ideologies.
Contents: Introduction : the fragile contemporaneity of the popular / Geoffrey Kantaris and Rory O'Bryen -- Politics. 'And where are the people?' : genealogies of the pueblo during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Francisco Ortega ; Folktales and fabulation in Lucrecia Martel's films / Joanna Page ; How popular is Cuban popular culture? / Stephen M. Hart ; 'El convertible no convertible' : reconsidering refuse and disjacta aesthetics in contemporary Cuban art / Erica Segre -- Media. Narratives of identity and media genres / Jesús Martin Barbero ; Filming favelas : space, gender and everyday life in Cidade de Deus and Antônia Lúcia Sá ; Colouring pollution : 'cleaning' the city and 'recycling' social values in São Paulo street art / Chandra Morrison ; Blogging from the margins : grassroots activism and mass media forms in the Hiperbarrio Project / Claire Taylor -- Affect. Affect, politics and the production of the people : mediations on the Río Magdalena / Rory O'Bryen ; The politics of emotion in the Mexican Revolution : the tears of Pancho Villa / Andrea Noble ; Memory and affective technologies in the Argentine comic book series Cybersix / Edward King.