Look(ing) at the Animals: The Presence of the Animal in Contemporary Southern Cone Cinema and in Carlos Busqued's Bajo este sol tremendo

Animality, Sexuality and the Politics of Death in Mario Bellatin's Salón de belleza

“…John Berger famously commented that spectacular caged environments, such as zoos, where ‘all animals appear like fish seen through the plate glass of an aquarium’, function as a ‘monument’ to the ‘disappearance’ or ‘marginalisation’ of animals with the ascendency of human culture (Berger, : 14–24). In this tradition of thought, ‘human advance coincides with the retreat of the animal, though animals do not disappear completely and live in a state of perpetual fading, hence their figure has become spectral, like that of the living dead’, as Valeria de los Ríos puts it (De los Ríos, : 38). In this view, the expanding life of one species (the human) is premised on the simultaneous marking for living death of other species.…”