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Paz, M
2015
August
Bulletin Of Spanish Studies
The laws of desire: sexuality, anomie and nation in the film by Carlos Reygadas
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Carlos Reygadas Mexican cinema transgression loss of social cohesion Carlos Reygadas cine mexicano transgresion desintegracion social
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This article offers a discussion of the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas: Japon (2002), Batalla en el cielo (2005), Stellet Licht (2007) and Post tenebras lux (2012). Drawing on the categories of urbanias and locality as formulated by Geoffrey Kantaris in his analysis of contemporary Mexican cinema, this article offers a socio-political reading of the films of Reygadas. Based on the multiple references to normative transgression that are found in the films at multiple levels, which range from sexuality to culture and crime, I conclude that the main problematic that informs the works of Reygadas is the loss of social cohesion that affects contemporary Mexico, and the resulting context of anomie that this phenomenon produces. Este articulo se ocupa de la obra cinematografica del director mexicano Carlos Reygadas, autor de los largometrajes Japon (2002), Batalla en el cielo (2005), Stellet licht (2007) y Post tenebras lux (2012). En particular, utilizando las categorias de ubranias y localidad propuestas por Geoffrey Kantaris para describir el cine mexicano contemporaneo, el articulo propone una lectura sociopolitica de los films de Reygadas. Haciendo referencia a las transgresiones normativas que presentan sus peliculas a distintos niveles, como sexual, cultural y legal, se concluye que la preocupacion general que se desprende de dicha obra cinematografica tiene que ver con la desintegracion social y el estado de anomia que afecta a la sociedad mexicana hoy en dia.
10.1080/14753820.2015.1041326
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