List of Publications
Dr Geoffrey Kantaris

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On-line Publications

• "Violent Visions: Representations of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Urban Cinema". Web resource, including video clips. Seminar-paper version of an article published in Spanish in the Revista de la Universidad de Palermo [Buenos Aires], and in an extensively modified version in English as "The Young and the Damned: Street Visions in Latin American Cinema, in Stephen Hart, ed., Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies (London: Arnold, 2003) 177-89.
• "Holograms and Simulacra: Bioy Casares, Subiela, Piglia". Web resource based on a seminar paper given at the Science and the Creative Imagination conference, Institute of Latin American Studies, London (22-Mar-2001). Includes video clips.
• "Lola/Lolo: género y violencia en películas de la Ciudad de México", showcase reprint of article published in Guaraguao [Barcelona] 18 (verano 2004) 57-78.
• "Peripheries of Globalization: Fredric Jameson's The Seeds of Time and Víctor Gaviria's The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas)". Preliminary version in English of a paper published in Spanish as "Periferias de la globalización: la disfasia temporal en La vendedora de rosas de Víctor Gaviria". Revista objeto visual [Caracas] 9 (julio 2003): 70-81.
• "The Repressed Signifier: the Cinema of Alejandro Agresti and Eliseo Subiela". Originally published in Identity and Discursive Practice. Ed. Francisco Domínguez. London: Peter Laing Publishers, 2000.
• "Allegorical Cities: Bodies and Visions in Colombian Urban Cinema". Estudios interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe [Tel Aviv] 9.2 (julio-diciembre, 1998). If this link is slow, try this alternative server (without illustrations).
• "Between Dolls, Vampires, and Cyborgs: Recursive Bodies in Mexican Urban Cinema". Paper given to the Modern Languages Society, University of Cambridge, November 1998, to the Society of Latin American Studies conference, Cambridge April 1999. Also given at "Hispanic Studies and Postmodernist Theories" conference, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, Friday 4th June 1999.
• "The Last Snapshots of Modernity: Argentine Cinema after the 'Process' ". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies [Glasgow] (April 1996).
• A web resource on the Argentine film Nueve reinas.
• A multimedia web resource on the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
• A seminar paper on "Avant-garde / Modernism / Postmodernism"
• "The Politics of Desire: Alienation and Identity in the Work of Marta Traba and Cristina Peri Rossi". Forum for Modern Language Studies [St Andrew's] 25.3 (July 1989): 248-64.

Books and Articles (paper publications)

Articles

"Lolo/Lola: Gender and Violence in Mexican Urban Cinema". In Wilson and Webber, eds, Cities in Transition. Wallflower. Forthcoming.

"Cyborgs, Cities, and Celluloid: Memory Machines in Two Latin American Cyborg Films". In Thea Pitman and Claire Taylor, eds., Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007).

"Cinema and Urbanías: Translocal Identities in Contemporary Mexican Film". Bulletin of Latin American Research [Liverpool] 25.4 (October 2006): 517-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2006.209_4.x.

"Soapsuds and Histrionics: Media, History, and Nation in Bolívar soy yo (Jorge Alí Triana, Colombia 2002)". In Deborah Shaw, ed., Contemporary Latin American: Breaking Into the Global Market (USA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

"Visiones de la violencia en el cine urbano latinoamericano". Revista de la Universidad de Palermo [Buenos Aires]. Published.

"Last Snapshots /Take 2: Personal and Collective Shipwrecks in Contemporary Argentine Cinema". Cultured Cities, ed. Richard Young: forthcoming.

"Holograms and Simulacra: Bioy Casares, Subiela, Piglia". Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2005.

"Lola/Lolo: género y violencia en películas de la Ciudad de México". Guaraguao: revista de cultura latinoamericana [Barcelona and Glasgow] 18 (verano 2004) 57-78. Web-based reprint available here. 

"The Young and the Damned: Street Visions in Latin American Cinema". In Stephen Hart, ed., Contemporary Latin American Studies (London: Arnold, 2003), 177-89.

"Periferias de la globalización: la disfasia temporal en La vendedora de rosas de Víctor Gaviria". Revista objeto visual [Caracas] 9 (julio 2003), 70-81.

"Deseos de literatura: autores sucedáneos en dos películas de Eliseo Subiela - Últimas imágenes del naufragio y El lado oscuro del corazón". Revista iberoamericana [Pittsburgh] 68.199 (abril-junio 2002): 269-81. Forthcoming in English, Nancy Mémbrez, ed. Eliseo Subiela.

"Re-Engendering History: María Luisa Bemberg's Miss Mary". Women's Studies [UCLA] 29 (2000): 5-18. Also published in John King, ed., María Luisa Bemberg: An Argentine Passion (London: Verso, 2001).

"The Repressed Signifier: the Cinema of Alejandro Agresti and Eliseo Subiela". Identity and Discursive Practice. Ed. Francisco Domínguez. London: Peter Laing Publishers, 2000.

"Folk Song/Street Song: Poetry and Popular Tradition in the Historical Avant-Garde". Changing Times in Hispanic Culture. Ed. Derek Harris. Aberdeen: Centre for the Study of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, 1996.

"The Silent Zone: Marta Traba". The Modern Language Review [London] 87.1 (January 1992): 86-101.

"Chariot of the Sun", fragment from the Tapiz de la creaci󮦬t;/em>. Image appears on the front cover of The Subversive Psyche (by kind permission of the Chapter of Girona Cathedral)

Book

The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay. Oxford University Press, March 1996. 266pp.

Blurb: "This is an exciting and original study of the links between gender and politics in the work of six important contemporary women writers from Argentina and Uruguay. Through detailed and theoretically sophisticate discussions of texts by six key writers -- Luisa Valenzuela, Marta Traba, Sylvia Molloy, and Reina Roffé (Argentina), and Cristina Peri Rossi and Armonía Somers (Uruguay) -- Geoffrey Kantaris shows how their writing of the 1980s, including their own critical and theoretical work, engages with, and often challenges, Western theories of the construction of gender and its relation to identity politics (notably psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism). By situating their work within the political turmoil of the period -- the brutal military dictatorships and the necessity of political or cultural exile -- Kantaris is able to show how these texts signal a shift of cultural perspective in the Southern Cone, in which gender is no longer ignored in the construction of national and political narratives."

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Contact information

I welcome contact from anyone working in related areas, whether it be comment, enquiries, discussion of issues, or offers for sharing of information.

• E-mail: Geoffrey.Kantaris@caths.cam.ac.uk
• Facsimile: +44 1223 338340 (marked for the attention of Dr Kantaris)
• Address: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris, St Catharine's College, Cambridge CB2 1RL, England - UK
• Telephone: +44 1223 338312 (direct line)

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