
María del Carmen Caña Jiménez
· Assistant Professor of SpanishVerifiedVirginia Tech · Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Active 1978–2024
About
María del Carmen Caña Jiménez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. She has been a faculty member since 2011 and specializes in Spanish and Hispanic Studies. Caña Jiménez is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters, and she is the author of the forthcoming book 'Argentina en la pequeña pantalla: reescrituras de la nación en la ficción televisiva' (Iberoamericana). She has also edited works including 'Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente' (A Contracorriente 2020), and 'Beyond Violence (Criticism) in Contemporary Hispanic Narratives and Cinemas' (Hispanófila 2016). Additionally, she co-edited 'Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo' (Albatros 2016) and 'Affect, Bodies, and Circulations in Contemporary Latin American Film' (Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2016). Her most recent book is 'Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives After 2008' (SUNY 2024). Caña Jiménez serves as the General Editor of the journal Hispanófila and has previously served as the Latin American book review editor for the same journal. She is also the founder, faculty advisor, and choreographer of Olé at Virginia Tech, a flamenco dance student organization. She has received several awards for her teaching, research, and service.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Humanities
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Art
- Gender studies
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Law
- History
Selected publications
El hipnotizador : Alegoría, artificio e historia nacional argentina
Revista de estudios hispánicos · 2024
1st authorCorresponding- Sociology
- Humanities
- Sociology
Abstract: In one of the few articles published on El hipnotizador (HBO 2015, 2017), Ada Cristina Machado da Silveira highlights the show's cross-border nature by suggesting that the series exemplifies the feeling of unbelonging central to the migrant experience of the Latino diaspora in transnational contexts, posing that it then participates in the construction of a supposed Latino viewing community (318). For her, the symbolic nature of El hipnotizador finds in the chronotope, heteroglossia, and space-time hybridity an innovative way of approaching an imaginary pan-Latin community (322). This essay suggests that the series can also be read from the perspective of the national through a detailed reading of the signs, symbols and allegories that point to a critical reflection of Argentine history. While the co-production and bilingual nature of the fiction suggest a latinoamericanidad , a careful analysis of the repeated presence of recognizable cultural codes and the intentional aesthetic artificiality of the composition encourages an allegorical reading that calls for reflection of the ideological bases of historical milestones in the country, such as its nineteenth-century national foundation and the most recent Proceso de Reorganización Nacional of the last Argentine military dictatorship.
State University of New York Press eBooks · 2024
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Computer Science
SUNY Press eBooks · 2024
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Computer Science
SUNY Press eBooks · 2024-11-07
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingState University of New York Press eBooks · 2024-10-20
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingDe tablaos a tableaux : Ecos saurianos en Rosalía
Romance notes · 2023-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingResumen: El objetivo del presente ensayo es identificar ecos del proceso creativo empleado por Carlos Saura en su producción cinematográfica flamenca en el trabajo de Rosalía. Esto me permitirá posicionar a Rosalía en la línea genealógica—artísticamente hablando— de Saura, genio cinematográfico cuya creación fílmica en torno al flamenco ha contribuido, como también lo está haciendo Rosalía, al impulso del flamenco a una escala global y a la defensa de este como manifestación artística de la alta cultura. Al hacer esto, este ensayo establece una conexión concreta entre Rosalía—entendida como fenómeno global— y Carlos Saura, director icónico y referencia fundamental en los debates contemporáneos sobre el cine español en una escala internacional.
Revista Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular · 2023-05-01
articleIntertextualidades fílmicas: Cinema Libertad o la tesis cinematográfica de Arturo Menéndez
ÍSTMICA Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras · 2022-07-24
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingLas páginas a continuación giran en torno al salvadoreño Arturo Menéndez y buscan esclarecer el lenguaje cinematográfico del autor a partir del análisis de la intertextualidad contenida en Cinema Libertad (2009). En ellas arguyo que, en Cinema Libertad, Menéndez propone la tesis de lo que será su producción como cineasta y sugiere diferentes vías para la renovación estética y ética del cine salvadoreño. En Cinema Libertad, Menéndez aboga por la capacidad creadora del cine y la libertad artística del autor al tiempo que invita a reflexionar –aunque de forma más íntima, crítica y meditativa que producciones audiovisuales más convencionales de la región– sobre las violencias que aún aquejan El Salvador.
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture · 2020-05-26
article1st authorCorrespondingFirst airing on TVN between 2012 and 2014 and then acquired by Netflix in 2017, the television series El reemplazante chronicles the narrative arc of Carlos Valdivia, a successful financial executive sentenced to three months in prison after committing securities fraud. After serving his sentence, he is fired from his lush position in the central business district of Sanhattan and returns to his humble origins in the San Miguel neighborhood of Santiago to work as a mathematics teacher. Here, he joins the students and other community members in fighting the privatization of the school system—a plot point based on real social tensions in Chile at the time of the series’ being broadcast. While at first glance it may seem that the protagonist’s politics aim to subvert the neoliberal status quo that is a result of economic measures taken during the years of Pinochet’s dictatorship, a closer analysis results in an altogether different reading. This essay explores the tropes of the tragic hero and superhero alluded to in the first episode of the series, to suggest that the dialectic planted by these narrative types allows an exploration of the mechanisms and structures of feeling (based on theories by Raymond Williams) of the neoliberal model. I analyze the circulation of emotions between the protagonist and his students, and—in a broader context—between the diegesis and the viewer. In doing so, I argue that the message of subversion is really not subversion at all, but rather a continuation and appeasement of the neoliberal ethos.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies · 2020-02-07 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingEste ensayo cuestiona y problematiza las tensiones presentes en la geografía humana melillense a partir del análisis de las topografías históricas y las intensidades afectivas presentes en Lucía o la inasible sustancia del tiempo (2014) de Antonio Abad. El estudio del afecto en relación con los espacios, tanto físicos como epistemológicos, de la ciudad va a hacer posible un mejor entendimiento del conflicto identitario de la geografía cultural melillense—una geografía cultural que al tiempo que se enorgullece del multiculturalismo que lleva por bandera y que la hace diferente a otras regiones de España defiende a capa y a espada el relato fundacional de su españolidad (entendiéndose esta como sinónimo de su origen cristiano). Este estudio analiza también la manera en que estos espacios y la historia que estos contienen interaccionan con el sujeto y engendran subjetividades que en línea con los postulados teóricos de Sarah Ahmed hacen de la ciudad una ‘nación’ de tacto suave y duro simultáneamente.
Frequent coauthors
- 3 shared
Vinodh Venkatesh
- 2 shared
René Márquez
Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana
- 1 shared
Ángel Parrado
- 1 shared
María José Cayetano
Universidad de Huelva
- 1 shared
Michael Seimetz
Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center
- 1 shared
Adriana González Perdomo
- 1 shared
Marcin Balcerzyk
BioCruces Health research Institute
- 1 shared
Astrid Vanessa Sarmiento Quiñones
San Sebastián University
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