Violence, Affect, and the Promise of Reconciliation in Colombian Contemporary Cinema

• Martín Ruiz-Mendoza ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

     City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 20, Nº. 1, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall 2022), págs. 125-150
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Violencia, afecto y la promesa de reconciliación en el cine colombiano del nuevo milenio
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  • This essay examines three Colombian films that explore affect as a way to articulate alternative modes of historical reconstruction. By establishing a dialogue between Víctor Gaviria's Rodrigo D, No futuro (1989), César Augusto Acevedo's La tierra y la sombra (2015), and Laura Mora's and Matar a Jesús (2017), this critical approach to violence in recent Colombian cinema traces the articulation of an ethical and aesthetic resistance to address the past as past, that is, as a dimension that must be collectively assimilated as overcome to inaugurate a new era of peace and national prosperity