Commodifying violence in literature and on screen : the Colombian condition / / Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910774790203321
• Autore: Herrero-Olaizola Alejandro
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-00-319570-9; 1-000-45077-5; 1-003-19570-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Disciplina: 303.230861
• Soggetti: Violence in mass media; Colombia In mass media; Colombia Foreign public opinion; Colombia Civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Colombian Condition -- Colombia as a Failed State: Critical Approaches to Violence -- Consuming Margins: Dirty Realism and the Cultural Field -- Translocalities of Violence and the Colombian Diaspora -- Reading the Colombian Condition -- Notes -- 1 Narco-Stories Globalized: Pablo Escobar and Excess Consumption -- Locating Narco-Stories in Fernando Vallejo and Juan Gabriel Vásquez -- Nam Le's "Cartagena": A Global Narco-Story -- Escobar as Media Entertainment: Pecados De Mi Padre and Entourage -- Colombian Narco-Soap Operas: Cocaine and Crime for Global Consumption -- Notes -- 2 The Ingrid Betancourt Story: Memory in the Times of Mass Media -- The Comic Story: Ingrid of the Jungle -- No Hay Silencio Que No Termine and the Memory Boom -- The Betancourt Story Spins Off: Captivating Stories in Operación Jaque and Operación E -- The "Official" Memory in Colombia -- Notes -- 3 The Travelogue Boom: Dark Exoticism for Global Consumption -- ; Writing Through the Lost Tracks: Ramón Chao's and Stephen Smith's Magical Mystery Tours -- Writing Home From Colombia: Losing Memories and Sights With Matthew Thompson and Michael Jacobs -- The Boom of Colombian Travelogues -- Notes -- 4 Affective Visuality: The Cinema of Conflict and Reconciliation -- The New Cinema Law and the Colombian Filmscape -- Affect and Mediation Reach the Cineplex -- Approaching the Other in Ciro Guerra's La Sombra Del Caminante -- Seeing Through Ash in César Acevedo's La Tierra Y La Sombra -- Aural Visuality in Jorge Forero's Violencia -- Notes -- 5 Epilogue: Post-Conflict Colombia? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.