Introduction: This is what defined cinema in the 2010s Mark Freeman and César Albarrán-Torres October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It would be preposterous to claim that this dossier encapsulates the totality of the stylistic trends, industry moves and authorial voices that dictated the pace of cinema during the past ten years. We have gat...
Spectacles of Death: Body Horror, Affect and Visual Culture in the Mexican Narco Wars (Issue 84, September 2017) César Albarrán-Torres October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 84, September 2017. This article offers an overview of the highly mediatized nature of the current phase of the Mexican narco wars, highlighting the existence of ...
The fluids of Roma: necropolitics and class in Cuarón’s cinematic memoir César Albarrán-Torres March 2019 Feature Articles This article argues that some of the strongest visual and symbolic elements that glue Roma together is the use of fluids as metaphors of racial and class division in 1970s Mexico, as well as the site in which t...
Contemporary Chilean cinema: a provisional cartography of an expanding field Valeria de los Ríos Escobar and César Albarrán-Torres December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Valeria de los Ríos Escobar Translated by César Albarrán-Torres In their 2010 book Novísimo cine chileno, Ascanio Cavallo and Gonzalo Maza coined the ter...
Living forever in The Sweet Hereafter: film spectatorship and personal memory César Albarrán-Torres June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia People often ask me what my favourite movie is. For a cinephile, a simple answer verges on the impossible. Ozu’s Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story, Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)? Chaplin’s premonitory Modern Times (Charles C...
Spectacles of Death: Body Horror, Affect and Visual Culture in the Mexican Narco Wars César Albarrán-Torres September 2017 Feature Articles This article offers an overview of the highly mediatized nature of the current phase of the Mexican narco wars, highlighting the existence of explicit videos released online by the cartels, which show execution...
