Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

ISBN-13: 9781784537111 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Deborah Martin; Deborah Shaw

Opis

A timely analysis of the rise of female-led transnational film in Latin America that takes account of the production histories, aesthetics and socio-political contexts of key industry figures.

Spis treści

IntroductionDeborah Martin and Deborah ShawPreface: Performing the Impossible in Plain SightB. Ruby RichPart 1: Industrial ContextsChapter 1. Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990sLúcia NagibChapter 2. Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on ScreenSarah BarrowChapter 3. "Parando la olla documental": Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary FilmClaudia Bossay and María-Paz PeiranoPart II: RepresentationsChapter 4. Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing LoveCatherine LeenChapter 5. Intimacy and Distance: Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman and El niño pez/The Fish ChildDeborah ShawChapter 6. Women's filmmaking and comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos and É Proibido FumarLeslie MarshChapter 7. Young women at the margins: Discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig HoogesteijnConstanza BurucúaPart III: Key AgentsChapter 8. Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The case of Marcela Fernández ViolanteNiamh ThorntonChapter 9. Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural PoliticsMarvin D'LugoChapter 10. Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's FilmmakingDeborah Martin

O autorze

Deborah Shaw is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the founding co-editor of the journal Transnational Cinemas (Now Transnational Screens), and her books include Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films (2003), The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón (2013), The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (co-edited with Ann Davies and Dolores Tierney, 2014), and Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics (co-edited with Deborah Martin 2017).