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Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky works on transnational political cinema, with a special focus on Latin America. She takes a comparativist and broadly hemispheric approach to the representation of race, labor, and “the people” in moving image media.
UChicago Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky works on transnational political cinema, with a special focus on Latin America.
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky. In the weeks following its release on Netflix, the critical reception of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018) crystallized around a negative review published in The New Yorker by Richard Brody. [1] The review’s main thesis was announced in its title: “There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma.’”.
For University of Chicago scholar Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, representations of police have also become an important subject of interdisciplinary study. As part of her new book project, she will explore how the disciplinarity-specific resources of cinema and media studies can also inform case law.
Jun 6, 2022 · For University of Chicago scholar Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, representations of police have also become an important subject of interdisciplinary study. As part of her new book project, she will explore how the disciplinarity-specific resources of cinema and media studies can also inform case law.
Feb 28, 2022 · In taking up what she calls the ‘process genre’, Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky identifies a media phenomenon that is almost atmospheric in its prevalence but had yet to be treated with serious scholarly...
In The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor, Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky proposes a transmedial genre that is defined by the representation of processes with identifiable. labor assume any inherent political stances? (Chapter 3).
