Latin American women filmmakers : production, politics, poetics / edited by Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Deborah (Professor), editor.

Shaw, Deborah, editor.

Series:

Tauris world cinema series

Tauris World Cinema Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors--Latin America.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Latin America.

Motion pictures.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and festival audiences alike. They undeniably mark a 'moment' for Latin American cinema.Bringing together distinguished scholars in the field - and prefaced by B. Ruby Rich - this is a much-needed account and analysis of the rise of female-led film in Latin America. Chapters detail the collaboration that characterises Latin American women's filmmaking - in many ways distinct from the largely 'Third Cinema' auteurism from the region - as well as the transnational production contexts, unique aesthetics and socio-political landscape of the key industry figures. Through close attention to the particular features of national film cultures, from women's documentary filmmaking in Chile to comedic critique in Brazil, and from US Latina screen culture to the burgeoning popularity of Peruvian film, this timely study demonstrates the remarkable possibilities for film in the region. This book will allow scholars and students of Latin American cinema and culture, as well as industry professionals, a deeper understanding of the emergence and impact of the filmmakers and their work, which has particular relevance for contemporary debates on feminism.

Contents:

I Industrial Contexts

1 Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s / Lúcia Nagib Nagib, Lúcia 31

2 Through Female Eyes: Retraining Peru on Screen / Sarah Barrow Barrow, Sarah 48

3 Parando la olla documental: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film / Claudia Bossay Bossay, Claudia, María-Paz Peirano Peirano, María-Paz 70

II Representations

4 Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing Love (2009) / Catherine Leen Leen, Catherine 99

5 Intimacy and Distance - Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza and El niño pez/The Fish Child / Deborah Shaw Shaw, Deborah 123

6 Women's Filmmaking and Comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos (2002) and É Proibido Fumar (2009) / Leslie L. Marsh Marsh, Leslie L. 149

7 Young Women at the Margins: Discourses on Exclusion in Two Films by Solveig Hoogesteijn / Constanza Burucúa Burucúa, Constanza 172

III Key Agents

8 Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The Case of Marcela Fernández Violante / Niamh Thornton Thornton, Niamh 197

9 Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics / Marvin D'Lugo D'Lugo, Marvin 217

10 Plnneta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking / Deborah Martin Martin, Deborah 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784537111

178453711X

OCLC:

957747585