Location

University at Albany, Humanities 290

Start Date

6-10-2017 11:15 AM

End Date

6-10-2017 11:45 AM

Description

Chilean filmmaker Fernández Almendras has examined the processes of victimization of the “poor man” in several of his feature films, most prominently Matar a un hombre [To Kill a Man] (2014, Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Price at Sundance Festival) and Aquí no ha pasado nada [Much Ado About Nothing] (2016). Both works exemplify processes of victimization through verbal performative acts: words in the form of humiliations, menaces and blackmail become the fatal weapons of scapegoating.

Speaker Information

Ilka Kressner is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her book Sites of Disquiet: The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and Their Cinematic Transformations (Purdue UP, 2013) examines representations of alternative spaces, among those, sites of deferral, merging perspectives, darkness and emptiness, in Spanish American short narratives and their adaptations to the screen. She has co-edited Walter Benjamin Unbound (2015, together with Alexander Gelley and Michael G. Levine), and is currently working on portrayals of corruption in contemporary Spanish American film.

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Scapegoating in the Films by Alejando Fernández Almendras

University at Albany, Humanities 290

Chilean filmmaker Fernández Almendras has examined the processes of victimization of the “poor man” in several of his feature films, most prominently Matar a un hombre [To Kill a Man] (2014, Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Price at Sundance Festival) and Aquí no ha pasado nada [Much Ado About Nothing] (2016). Both works exemplify processes of victimization through verbal performative acts: words in the form of humiliations, menaces and blackmail become the fatal weapons of scapegoating.