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Feminist Documentary Cinema as a Diffraction Apparatus: A Diffractive Reading of the Spanish Films, Cuidado, resbala and Yes, We Fuck!

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  • Orianna Calderon-Sandoval

    (Research Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain)

  • Adelina Sanchez-Espinosa

    (Research Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain)

Abstract

Following Karen Barad’s diffractive methodology, we encounter feminist documentary cinema as a diffraction apparatus: that is, as technologies that make part of the world intelligible to another part of the world in specific ways, by means of intra-actions between human and non-human agencies and objects of observation. We propose three analytical tools: materiality, emotionality, and performativity. In this article, we analyse two Spanish documentary films that render visible the potential of feminist documentary cinema for building alliances from and against precarity: Cuidado, resbala and Yes, We Fuck! Reading the insights and patterns raised in each case study through one another (i.e., diffractively), we discuss the intra-actions by which each of these films participates in co-creating the real. We end up describing three possible effects of feminist material-discursive practices in documentary cinema.

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  • Orianna Calderon-Sandoval & Adelina Sanchez-Espinosa, 2019. "Feminist Documentary Cinema as a Diffraction Apparatus: A Diffractive Reading of the Spanish Films, Cuidado, resbala and Yes, We Fuck!," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-14, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:8:y:2019:i:7:p:206-:d:245082
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    1. Rainer Rubira-García & Belén Puebla-Martínez & Roberto Gelado-Marcos, 2018. "Social Representations in Studying Information, Knowledge, and Mediations: A Critical Review," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-14, December.
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    1. Beatriz Revelles-Benavente & Waltraud Ernst & Monika Rogowska-Stangret, 2019. "Feminist New Materialisms: Activating Ethico-Politics through Genealogies in Social Sciences," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-6, October.

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