Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers : Theory, Practice and Difference / edited by Parvati Nair and Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Allbilla.Manchester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel.

Nair, Parvati.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--Latin America.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester Univ Press, 2013.

Summary:

This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present, by exploring the intersections between feminist film theory, gender studies and film practices by women in Latin America, the US, Portugal and Spain. Establishing resonances and disjunctions between films made by female filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic, this critical study both fills a gap and extends the fields of Hispanic and Lusophone Film Studies and Feminist Film Theory. While the work of these filmmakers is considered within the Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American and Latino contexts from which they arise, this book establishes connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part of the filmmakers. The volume focuses on the aesthetic, theoretical and socio-historical analyses to question the gender and sexual politics in an emerging number of films made by women in Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the US. Studied here is the work of important women filmmakers, who have contributed to their cinematographic industries since the silent period, such as Adela Sequeyros, Ana Mariscal, Sara Gómez, Lourdes Portillo, Icíar Bollaín, Lucrecia Martel, Isabel Coixet, and Alicia Scherson. Through collaboration with emerging and internationally renowned scholars from around the world, this volume documents and interprets a fascinating corpus of films, including Para que no me olvides, The Secret Life of Words, Sin dejar huella, Um passaporte húngaro, Los rubios, La ciénaga, Play, and Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos. Expanding our understanding of gender and sexual politics in these Hispanic and Lusophone films, this collection is an essential resource to rethink notions of gender identity, memory and subjectivity within national cultures and transnational frameworks. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Transnational co-productions and female filmmakers: the cases of Lucrecia Martel and Isabel Coixet / Paul Julian Smith Smith, Paul Julian 12

Part I Memory and history

2 Lost and invisible: a history of Latin American women filmmakers / Patricia Torres San Martín Martín, Patricia Torres San 29

3 Feminine spaces of memory: mourning and melodrama in Para que no me olvides (2005) by Patricia Ferreira / Isolina Ballesteros Ballesteros, Isolina 42

4 Women filmmakers and citizenship in Brazil, from Bossa Nova to the retomada / Catherine L. Benamou Benamou, Catherine L., Leslie L. Marsh Marsh, Leslie L. 54

5 Ana Mariscal: signature, event, context / Steven Marsh Marsh, Steven 72

6 Rosario Pi and the challenge of social and cinematic conventions during the Second Republic / Alejandro Melero Salvador Salvador, Alejandro Melero 83

7 Deterritorialised intimacies: the documentary legacy of Sara Gómez in three contemporary Cuban women filmmakers / María Caridad Cumaná González González, María Caridad Cumaná, Susan Lord Lord, Susan 96

Part II Culture and conflict

8 Ana Díez: Basque cinema, gender and the home(land) / Ann Davies Davies, Ann 115

9 Slipping discursive frameworks: gender (and) politics in Colombian women's documentary / Deborah Martin Martin, Deborah 126

10 The 'poetics of transformation' in the works of Lourdes Portillo / Rosa Linda Fregoso Fregoso, Rosa Linda 140

Part III Migration, transnationalism and borders

11 A disjunctive order: place, space and the gendered body in Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words (2005) / Helena López López, Helena 157

12 Reconfiguring the rural: fettered geographies, unsettled histories and the abyss of alienation in the work of three Spanish women filmmakers / Parvati Nair Nair, Parvati 171

13 Tracing the border: the 'frontier condition' in María Novaro's Sin dejar huella / Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofía 181

Part IV Subjectivity

14 Genealogies of the self: (auto)biography in Sandra Kogut's Um Passaporte Húngaro (2001) and Albertina Carri's Los rubios (2003) / Charlotte Gleghorn Gleghorn, Charlotte 199

15 Filming in the feminine: subjective realism, social disintegration and bodily affection in Lucrecia Marrel's La ciénaga (2001) / Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel 215

16 Everything to play for: renegotiating Chilean identity in Alicia Scherson's Play (2005) / Sarah Wright Wright, Sarah 229

17 The politics of pathos in Pilar Miró's Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980) / Tom Whittaker Whittaker, Tom 241

18 Icíar Bollaín's 'Carte de Tendre': mapping female subjectivity for the turn of the millennium / Jo Evans Evans, Jo 252

19 Murmuring another('s) story: histories under the sign of the feminine, pre- and post- the Portuguese revolution of 1974 / Rui Gonçalves Miranda Miranda, Rui Gonçalves 264.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719083570

0719083575

OCLC:

798615461