{"product_id":"visual-guillotine-1","title":"Visual Guillotine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe violence of the cinematic cut in twentieth-century Latin American film\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSplice, montage, close-up: by these means, modern cinema routinely presents bodies in pieces. Not unlike the guillotine itself, argues Thomas Matusiak, these techniques have served both overt and symbolic political ends as they accomplish and project the efficient production of severed bodies. In \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Guillotine, \u003c\/i\u003eMatusiak traces the use of cinematic tools of dismemberment in twentieth-century Latin American film to theorize the symbolic and material violence of the cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA robust genealogy of Latin American cinematic politics, \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses national filmmaking traditions; radical and reactionary political registers; and the proliferated aesthetics of narrative, documentary, experimental, and expanded cinema through an innovative critical viewing practice. From the national cinemas of the 1930s to the decapitation videos produced in the Mexican narco-conflict and beyond, Matusiak shows how the cinematic cut has been employed to inspire terror as well as invoke and critique a range of political programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA refreshing dialogue between film theory and Latin American cultural studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Guillotine\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way for film to conceptualize politics. In our present political moment, with rapidly generated and circulated visual media central to a resurgent leftist-populist battle against oligarchy and authoritarianism, this book calls for readers to reassess their viewing position when confronted with violent imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57298025578840,"sku":"9781517915537","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517915537.jpg?v=1778838322","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/visual-guillotine-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}