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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Latin American Cinema Beyond the Human
Carolyn Fornoff and Gisela Heffes
Part I: Genre Beyond the Human
1. Movies on the Move: Filming the Amazon Rainforest
Patrícia Vieira
2. Visualizing the Geosphere: The 1985 Earthquake in Mexican Cinema
Carolyn Fornoff
3. Revisiting Nature and Documenting the Americas: From Alexander von Humboldt to the Contemporary Latin American Documentary
Juana New
4. Slow Violence in the Slow Cinema of Lisandro Alonso
Amanda Eaton McMenamin
Part II: Encountering Difference
5. Humanimal Assemblages: Slaughters in Latin American Left-Wing Cinema
Moira Fradinger
6. Reordering Material Hierarchies in Jossie Malis Álvarez's Animated Series, Bendito Machine
Katherine Bundy
7. Mapping Queer Natures in Papu Curotto's Esteros
Vinodh Venkatesh
8. Counterflows: Hydraulic Order and Residual Ecologies in Caribbean Fantasy Landscapes
Lisa Blackmore
9. Differential Viscosities: The Material Hermeneutics of Blood, Oil, and Water in Crude and The Blood of Kouan Kouan
Mark Anderson
Part III: Screening the Pluriverse
10. Human Rights at the End of the World: Patricio Guzmán and the "Imperative to Reimagine the Planet"
Fernando J. Rosenberg
11. Sea Turtles and Seascapes: Representing Human-Nature Relations in the Central American Caribbean
Mauricio Espinoza and Tomás Emilio Arce
12. Refracting Lenses on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua: Documenting Social Ecologies and Biospheres in El ojo del tiburón and El canto de Bosawas
Julia M. Medina
13. The Sacred Space of Motoapohua: Intercorporeal Animality and National Subjectivities in Nicolás Echevarría's Eco de la montaña
Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
14. Undisciplined Knowledge: Indigenous Activism and Decapitation Resistance
Gisela Heffes
Contributors
Index

Carolyn Fornoff is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Gisela Heffes is Associate Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at Rice University.