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This chapter analyses the Dominican fiction feature, Candela (Andrés Farías Cintrón, 2021), paying particular attention to the use of thriller and noir genre codes and formal mechanisms that invoke and frustrate causal logics. The film thus forces the spectator to temporarily inhabit a ‘weird’ temporality that invokes both dominant traditions of thought regarding Caribbean history and time by conjugating the post-apocalyptic with the everyday. Frustrating or rendering irrelevant narrative denouement, Candela emphasises the centrality of the experience of ‘the wait’ that follows one disaster and anticipates the next, conveying how agency is differentially compromised by coloniality and suspended in the face of the disastrous human impact on the environment.
Author(s): Fehimovic D
Editor(s): Tolentino A; Tomé P
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: La gran pantalla dominicana Volúmen II: La ebullición creativa del siglo XXI
Year: 2024
Pages: 93-124
Print publication date: 01/01/2024
Acceptance date: 21/10/2022
Publisher: Almenara Press
Place Published: Leiden
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9789492260574
