Cinema as Infrastructure: Visuality, Power, and the Latin American South, (Paperback)

<p><b>Examining the interplay of visuality and infrastructure in Latin American films.</b></p><p>Images do far more than we realize. They do not simply represent or depict; they run our world. Surveillance cameras and drones, medical imaging, social media platforms, market-data visualization--these and other technologies make the image an infrastructure of power, a tool for organizing and governing, impressing labor and extracting value.</p><p>Adriana Johnson draws on the medium of film to sensitize us to the logics of visuality as a technology of power. In particular, Latin American cinema presents a key site for both crystallizing and retreating from these logics. Through close readings of Argentine, Paraguayan, and Brazilian movies--including the documentary <i>Bus 174</i>, the dystopian sci-fi <i>The Aerial</i>, and the farcical <i>The Gold Bug</i>--Johnson shows how filmmakers can amplify or attenuate the infrastructural reach of visuality. They also reveal visuality's otherwise-submerged power, and even engage in something like piracy: hacking into, rerouting, and deconstituting the workings of visual infrastructures. A deeply insightful and theoretically rich account, <i>Cinema as Infrastructure</i> reframes the political stakes of filmmaking in an era when visual forms have become means of production and order.</p>

• Cinema as Infrastructure: Visuality, Power, and the Latin American South, (Paperback)
• Author: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson
• ISBN: 9781477335833
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-02-02
• Page Count: 312