The Visual and the Visceral. Bodily Communities and Visual Communities in Martín Céspedes’s El estómago de la cultura (2012)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20203002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian J Diaz-Duhalde (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-339 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2017.1316709 |
| OpenAlex | W2615543382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
El estómago de la cultura (Culture’s Stomach) (2012) is a short documentary film directed by Martín Céspedes which depicts the slaughter process in a refrigerated warehouse ‘without a foreman’ on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The documentary offers a visual reflection on the place of the livestock industry in Argentina in the face of finance capital driven by genetically modified agriculture and encourages debate around the functioning of an establishment managed by its own workers. In this article, I propose a reading that provides a way of thinking about the representation of Argentine post-2001 communities and their ‘exposure’ in this documentary by analysing two visual strategies: first, the generation of images which appeal directly to the viewer’s sensibility, that is, images affecting the body of the spectator, and second the presentation of collective images or images of groups of people, of livestock, and of lifeless organs or bodies. By generating a community that includes the spectator’s body and by portraying parcels of men and animals and their ‘common ways’ of existing, El estómago de la cultura on the one hand reinforces the sense of communion and, on the other hand, simultaneously indicates the precarious nature of its existence and the survival of post-2001 communal projects
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Humanities · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual culture · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Music History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |