{"product_id":"bodies-of-water-queer-aesthetics-in-contemporary-latin-american-cinema","title":"Bodies of Water: Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHOICE \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, for the 2025 British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies Best Publication Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRivers, swimming pools, lakes, and oceans: these watery spaces recur with remarkable frequency in recent queer Latin American cinema, urging us to question the intimacies between queerness and the aquatic. Unpredictable and uncontrollable, water reflects a natural fluidity in our sexual desires and orientations; it is both a space and a substance, one in which bodies surrender themselves to the natural forces of currents and flows. As the first book to investigate water's queer cinematic potential, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that we think not only \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e water but also \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e it, illuminating new directions for the study of queer world cinema and its evolving aesthetic strategies. \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e engages critically with theories of cinematic embodiment and recent work in queer theory and the environmental humanities, foregrounding a region of the world historically overlooked in global discussions of queerness. By examining the radical queer epistemologies that emerge at the convergence of body, camera, and water, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately poses a question of both critical and sociopolitical concern: what's so queer about cinematic waters?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48515704783097,"sku":"9781438499178","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_f016d1dd-fe41-4c4c-b2fa-12468da13007.jpg?v=1781209034","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/bodies-of-water-queer-aesthetics-in-contemporary-latin-american-cinema","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}