Commodifying violence in literature and on screen : the Colombian condition /
Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro,
Commodifying violence in literature and on screen : the Colombian condition / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. - 1 online resource. - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature . - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the Colombian condition -- Narco-stories globalized: Pablo Escobar and excess consumption -- The Ingrid Betancourt story: memory in the times of mass media -- The travelogue boom: dark exoticism for global consumption -- Affective visuality: the cinema of conflict and reconciliation -- Epilogue: post-conflict Colombia?
"Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, this book investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors"--
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain (2007) andNarrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporǹea de las Américas (2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies), Teaching the Latin American Boom (2015), and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (2017). His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN, and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos. His research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, and Fulbright fellowships.
9781003195702 1003195709 9781000450811 1000450813 1000450775 9781000450774
10.4324/9781003195702 doi
9781003195702 Taylor & Francis
GBC1C8021 bnb
020283133 Uk
Violence in mass media.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Civilization.
Mass media.
Public opinion.
Violence in mass media.
Colombia--In mass media.
Colombia--Foreign public opinion.
Colombia--Civilization.
Colombia.
Electronic books.
P96.C657 / H47 2021
303.230861
Commodifying violence in literature and on screen : the Colombian condition / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. - 1 online resource. - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature . - Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the Colombian condition -- Narco-stories globalized: Pablo Escobar and excess consumption -- The Ingrid Betancourt story: memory in the times of mass media -- The travelogue boom: dark exoticism for global consumption -- Affective visuality: the cinema of conflict and reconciliation -- Epilogue: post-conflict Colombia?
"Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, this book investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors"--
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain (2007) andNarrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporǹea de las Américas (2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies), Teaching the Latin American Boom (2015), and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (2017). His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN, and Hispanic Review. Currently, he is the Editor of Revista de Estudios Colombianos. His research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, and Fulbright fellowships.
9781003195702 1003195709 9781000450811 1000450813 1000450775 9781000450774
10.4324/9781003195702 doi
9781003195702 Taylor & Francis
GBC1C8021 bnb
020283133 Uk
Violence in mass media.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Civilization.
Mass media.
Public opinion.
Violence in mass media.
Colombia--In mass media.
Colombia--Foreign public opinion.
Colombia--Civilization.
Colombia.
Electronic books.
P96.C657 / H47 2021
303.230861