{"product_id":"cinema-as-infrastructure-1","title":"Cinema As Infrastructure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the interplay of visuality and infrastructure in Latin American films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImages 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdriana 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 \u003ci\u003eBus 174\u003c\/i\u003e, the dystopian sci-fi \u003ci\u003eThe Aerial\u003c\/i\u003e,and the farcical \u003ci\u003eThe Gold Bug\u003c\/i\u003e—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, \u003ci\u003eCinema as Infrastructure\u003c\/i\u003e reframes the political stakes of filmmaking in an era when visual forms have become means of production and order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57504954614133,"sku":"9781477335833","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/cinema-as-infrastructure-1","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}