Amit Thakkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 240575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Thakkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Thakkar |
| SIGNATURE | THAKKAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Perpetrating Victim
This article positions the protagonist Raúl Peralta in Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín 2008) towards the perpetrator end of a victim-perpetrator continuum. With reference to Michael Rothberg’s work on the role of implicated subjects (2013), it acknowledges the character’s status as class victim but foregrounds the repetitive acts of physical violence that mark him out as much more of a perpetrator under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (19…
Men, power and liberation
(2014). Men, power and liberation: readings of masculinities in Spanish American literatures. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 20, Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures, pp. 1-6
Una tercera lectura”
In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aestheti…
Latency, Biopolitics and the Reproductive Arena
In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegación) under Pinochet's regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung's 'structural violence' against Ramiro's masculinity, that strategies of 'hiding' individual bodies for the sake of the 'social body' are relevant to biopolitics (Michel Foucault), and that La frontera exploits…
Ambivalence and the Crisis of the Mimic Man
The Perpetrating Victim
This article positions the protagonist Raúl Peralta in Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín 2008) towards the perpetrator end of a victim-perpetrator continuum. With reference to Michael Rothberg’s work on the role of implicated subjects (2013), it acknowledges the character’s status as class victim but foregrounds the repetitive acts of physical violence that mark him out as much more of a perpetrator under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (19…
Latency, Biopolitics and the Reproductive Arena
In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegación) under Pinochet's regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung's 'structural violence' against Ramiro's masculinity, that strategies of 'hiding' individual bodies for the sake of the 'social body' are relevant to biopolitics (Michel Foucault), and that La frontera exploits…
Ambivalence and the Crisis of the Mimic Man
Latency, Biopolitics and the Reproductive Arena
In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegación) under Pinochet's regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung's 'structural violence' against Ramiro's masculinity, that strategies of 'hiding' individual bodies for the sake of the 'social body' are relevant to biopolitics (Michel Foucault), and that La frontera exploits…
Men, power and liberation
(2014). Men, power and liberation: readings of masculinities in Spanish American literatures. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 20, Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures, pp. 1-6
Una tercera lectura”
In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aestheti…
The Perpetrating Victim
This article positions the protagonist Raúl Peralta in Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín 2008) towards the perpetrator end of a victim-perpetrator continuum. With reference to Michael Rothberg’s work on the role of implicated subjects (2013), it acknowledges the character’s status as class victim but foregrounds the repetitive acts of physical violence that mark him out as much more of a perpetrator under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (19…
Latin American Literature Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works)