Author : Charles St-Georges
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (857 download)
Book Synopsis The Temporal Trope of the Ghost and the Rhetorical Figure of the Family in Hispanic Horror Films of the 2000s by : Charles St-Georges
Download or read book The Temporal Trope of the Ghost and the Rhetorical Figure of the Family in Hispanic Horror Films of the 2000s written by Charles St-Georges and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed trajectory through these films will help facilitate a study of the potential of these rhetorical figures to either reinscribe or question two of the most fundamental processes that go into the cartography of ideology: the imposition of (a) time and the negotiation of social subjectivity within it. Competing political narratives may use any number of rhetorical strategies to position themselves in time to promote their agendas while continuing to reinforce the overall framework that determines the parameters of what is visible, and thus debatable. As temporal anomalies who are defined by their (in)visibility, ghosts can be used to either reinforce this framework or they can be used to articulate alternative relationships to time, and consequently, other political possibilities. Ghosts, families, and children are especially volatile rhetorical figures because of their potential to expose the mechanisms of societal organization--the construction of social subjects through their relationship to the time and the families of which they are presumably products--as negotiable processes rather than self-evident truths.