Event
Y Tu Mamá También Film Screening With Professor Juan Llamas Rodriguez
1412 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA
On Wednesday, March 26th, join author and professor Juan Llamas Rodriguez, University of Pennsylvania's Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Mexican Cultural Center and Community College of Philadelphia for a screening of Y Tu Mamá También and the release of Llamas-Rodriguez' book on the film.
A staple of New Mexican Cinema, Y Tu Mamá También courted controversy with its explicit depictions of teenage sexuality and its forthright perspective on the country’s inequality. In his new book, Prof. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez revisits Y Tu Mamá También after more than two decades of social, industrial, and technological change to show how it astutely captures a particular moment in Mexican history and global film culture.
Join us starting at 6:30pm for activities and giveaways to learn more about Mexican society and culture. Screening starts at 7:00pm, followed by Q&A with Prof. Llamas-Rodriguez about the film.
Featured Speaker
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he researches and teaches global media cultures, digital technologies, border studies, infrastructure studies, and Latin American media.
His first book, Border Tunnels (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) examines how media forms and technologies shape perceptions about the borderlands and help reimagine the stakes of border-making practices. His second book analyzes the legacy, popularity, and queer significance of the Mexican film Y Tu Mamá También and is forthcoming from the Queer Film Classics series at McGill-Queen’s University Press. He also regularly writes about the class, race, and gender politics of Netflix’s Spanish-language programming. His work has appeared in the journals Social Text; Feminist Media Histories; Television & New Media; Lateral; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Popular Communication; and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as several edited collections.
Llamas-Rodriguez is co-editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, the first peer-reviewed open access academic journal of videographic scholarship. He has published bilingual video essays and criticism in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, and Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales.
Llamas-Rodriguez actively engages in public humanities projects. He is a member of the Global Internet TV Consortium, a network of media scholars studying the implications of internet-distributed screen content around the world, and co-lead of The Migrant Steps Project, a public humanities initiative that prompts walking reflections through engagement with curated narratives about migration.