Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, without consensus or a singular/unifying narrative, act like spectres haunting the present. To comprehend how they manifest, Legacies of the Past considers how filmmakers and visual artists have found ways of understanding these haunted spaces. With case studies of films like El atentado (2010), Flor en Otomi (2012) and the photography of Dulce Pinzon, this collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history. The contributors' explorations, imaginings and counter-imaginings bring the past to the foreground, creating new narratives and proposing new histories in order to show the significance of storytelling and narrative for a shared understanding of ourselves.

About the Author
Niamh Thornton, Reader, University of Liverpool. Miriam Haddu, Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474480543
Author Niamh Thornton
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press