Eugenio Di Stefano
Biographic Data
| ID | 212761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenio Di Stefano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenio |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Stefano |
| SIGNATURE | DI STEFANO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6588-233X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rules of the Game in Carlos Reygadas’s “Serenghetti”
At first glance, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas’ Serenghetti (2009) appears to be a documentary, capturing nothing more than an amateur women’s soccer match filmed in Santo Domingo Ocotitlán (Morelos, Mexico). Commentary on the film has focused on social issues such as urban development, anthropocentrism, and sport as spectacle. This essay, however, argues that Serenghetti is much more interested in examining the aesthetic dimension of cinema,…
Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín's No and Neruda
For nearly forty years, freedom in Latin American literature has been tied to liberal democracy and state-sponsored terror. Literature, according to this post-dictatorial project, eliminates the division between art and life on behalf of democratic freedom and against human rights violations. What this project ignores is that the dictatorships’ objective was to eliminate all resistance to the market. Or as Eduardo Galeano notes, “People were in p…
What Can a Painting Do
What Can a Painting Do?:Absorption and Aesthetic Form in Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib as a Response to Affect Theory and the Moral Utopia of Human Rights Eugenio Di Stefano The shape is the object. —Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood (151) This article proposes to discuss the aesthetic and political value of a 2005 collection of more than fifty paintings by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero depicting the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Introducing…
Forms of Cruelty
Forms of Cruelty Eugenio Di Stefano (bio) A review of Jean Franco, Cruel Modernity. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. In this book Jean Franco maps out the intersection of cruelty and modernity in Latin America by extending the conversation beyond a "narrow European perspective" (4) that centers on the Holocaust and the German concentration camps. Latin America has had its share of concentration camps, but what distinguishes this region from other parts of …
From Revolution to Human Rights in Mario Benedetti'sPedro y el Capitán
This essay addresses the central role human rights literature has played in Latin American literary and political culture. My particular focus is on Mario Benedetti's 1979 play Pedro y el Capitán. Latin American literary criticism has usually considered Benedetti's play a foundational text of the human rights discourse, but this essay argues that this ‘humanitarian’ reading comes at the expense of the ideological project that is at the play's cen…
Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín's No and Neruda
For nearly forty years, freedom in Latin American literature has been tied to liberal democracy and state-sponsored terror. Literature, according to this post-dictatorial project, eliminates the division between art and life on behalf of democratic freedom and against human rights violations. What this project ignores is that the dictatorships’ objective was to eliminate all resistance to the market. Or as Eduardo Galeano notes, “People were in p…
From Revolution to Human Rights in Mario Benedetti'sPedro y el Capitán
This essay addresses the central role human rights literature has played in Latin American literary and political culture. My particular focus is on Mario Benedetti's 1979 play Pedro y el Capitán. Latin American literary criticism has usually considered Benedetti's play a foundational text of the human rights discourse, but this essay argues that this ‘humanitarian’ reading comes at the expense of the ideological project that is at the play's cen…
From Revolution to Human Rights in Mario Benedetti'sPedro y el Capitán
This essay addresses the central role human rights literature has played in Latin American literary and political culture. My particular focus is on Mario Benedetti's 1979 play Pedro y el Capitán. Latin American literary criticism has usually considered Benedetti's play a foundational text of the human rights discourse, but this essay argues that this ‘humanitarian’ reading comes at the expense of the ideological project that is at the play's cen…
Forms of Cruelty
Forms of Cruelty Eugenio Di Stefano (bio) A review of Jean Franco, Cruel Modernity. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. In this book Jean Franco maps out the intersection of cruelty and modernity in Latin America by extending the conversation beyond a "narrow European perspective" (4) that centers on the Holocaust and the German concentration camps. Latin America has had its share of concentration camps, but what distinguishes this region from other parts of …
What Can a Painting Do
What Can a Painting Do?:Absorption and Aesthetic Form in Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib as a Response to Affect Theory and the Moral Utopia of Human Rights Eugenio Di Stefano The shape is the object. —Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood (151) This article proposes to discuss the aesthetic and political value of a 2005 collection of more than fifty paintings by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero depicting the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. Introducing…
Forms of Freedom in Pablo Larraín's No and Neruda
For nearly forty years, freedom in Latin American literature has been tied to liberal democracy and state-sponsored terror. Literature, according to this post-dictatorial project, eliminates the division between art and life on behalf of democratic freedom and against human rights violations. What this project ignores is that the dictatorships’ objective was to eliminate all resistance to the market. Or as Eduardo Galeano notes, “People were in p…
The Rules of the Game in Carlos Reygadas’s “Serenghetti”
At first glance, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas’ Serenghetti (2009) appears to be a documentary, capturing nothing more than an amateur women’s soccer match filmed in Santo Domingo Ocotitlán (Morelos, Mexico). Commentary on the film has focused on social issues such as urban development, anthropocentrism, and sport as spectacle. This essay, however, argues that Serenghetti is much more interested in examining the aesthetic dimension of cinema,…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works)