Cine, modernidad y sexodiversidadconstrucciones transnacionales dentro del cine queer latinoamericano

Abstract

This doctoral thesis proposes the study of a Latin American Queer Cinema and its transnational constructions as an alternative model of representation of sexual diversity inscribed within the global discourses of queer. We propose to analyze new critical discourses found in queer films, or in other words, films which aim to distabilize normative sexual identities from dialogues based on queer theory. We aim to study the representation of transnational strategies within these films, as well as those approaches that explore how sexual diversity is felt throughout the region. These discourses are shown as hybrids in a creole cinema, which reflects the sociocultural consequences found and built during different stages of film production; such as in co-productions and film financing exchange, in transglocal viewing practices and in international distribution. These strategies are inherent in specific glocal cultural characteristics which reflect the process of social change. We will also contend those debates that question how legitimate a Latin American Queer Cinema is, especially if the discussion takes place within an anglocentric point of ―queer”. From the postqueer dialogues, which aim to destabilize queer itself, we intend to prove the limited range of this anglocentric view for transnational studies. Latin American Queer Cinema is found to form part of a new queer transnational trend that redefines queerness from modernity, where the region plays a relevant role...