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Performing the border / Women Make Movies ; a film by Ursula Biemann.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.
- Women--Employment--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Urbanization--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Urbanization.
- Sexual division of labor--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Sex crimes--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Sex crimes.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (43 min.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1999]
- Language Note:
- In English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: An Internet browser with HTML5 support.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the film explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 19, 2022).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-ptb Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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