Material Correspondences in Icíar Bollaín's Even the Rain: Ambiguities of Substance.

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  • Author(s): Carter, Christopher
  • Source:
    KB Journal. Spring2016, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p1-1. 1p. 3 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Even the Rain (Film); Materiality & art; Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993; Imperialism; Role ambiguity
    • Abstract:
      Whether describing the distillation of labor into commodities or the representation of affect through objects, Kenneth Burke attends to the interlaced agencies of people and things. This essay locates such convergences in Icíar Bollaín's film Even the Rain, uncovering forms of politically-charged consubstantiality between human and extrahuman materiality. An awareness of what Burke calls "ambiguities of substance" gives viewers a way to interpret the movie's linkage of imperialism and "thing rhetoric" across five centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]