Adapting gender : Mexican feminisms from literature to film / Ilana Dann Luna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luna, Ilana Dann, 1978- author.

Series:

SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Mexico--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Film adaptations--Mexico--History and criticism.

Film adaptations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2018.

Summary:

Adapting Gender offers a cogent introduction to Mexico's film industry, the history of women's filmmaking in Mexico, a new approach to adaptation as a potential feminist strategy, and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico. Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential to subvert not only the intentions of the source text, but how they can also interrupt the hegemony of gender stereotypes in a broader socio-political context. Luna follows the industrial shifts that began with Salinas de Gortari's presidency, which made the long 1990s the precise moment in which subversive filmmakers, particularly women, were able to participate more fully in the industry and portrayed the lived experiences of women and non-gender-conforming men. The analysis focuses on Busi Cortés's El secreto de Romelia (1988), an adaptation of Rosario Castellanos's short novel El viudo Román (1964); Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardán's Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996), an adaptation of Berman's own play, Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1992); Guita Schyfter's Novia que te vea (1993), an adaptation of Rosa Nissán's eponymous novel (1992); and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's De noche vienes, Esmeralda (1997), an adaptation of Elena Poniatowska's short story "De noche vienes" (1979). These adapted texts established a significant alternative to monolithic notions of national (gendered) identity, while critiquing, updating, and even queering, notions of feminism in the Mexican context.

Contents:

Adapting gender: an introduction

Mexican feminisms from literature to film

Rebellious daughters in El secreto de Romelia

Revolutionary variations entre (Pancho) Villa y una mujer desnuda

Wedding the "other" in Novia que te vea

Sexual tensions: queering feminism in De noche vienes, Esmeralda

- Collusions and conclusions

Appendix 1. Filmography of Mexican films with LGBTQ content.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438468280

1438468288