Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers : theory, practice and difference / edited by Parvati Nair and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nair, Parvati, editor.

Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel, editor.

Series:

Manchester Film Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the motion picture industry.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Latin America.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Portuguese-speaking countries.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Portugal.

Women motion picture producers and directors--Spain.

Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

While women directors continue to be a minority in most national and transnational film contexts, there are those among them who rank among the most innovative and inventive of filmmakers. Filmmaking by women becomes an important route to exploring what lies outside of and beyond the stereotype through reflexivity on violence and conflict, and through visual and narrative explorations of migration, exile, subjectivity, history or individual and collective memory. By documenting and interpreting a fascinating corpus of films made by women coming from Latin America, the US, Portugal and Spain, this book proposes research strategies and methodologies that can expand our understanding of socio-cultural and psychic constructions of gender and sexual politics. It critically examines the work of Hispanic and Lusophone female filmmakers. It 'weaves' several 'threads' by working at the intersections between feminist film theory, gender studies and film practices by women in Latin America, the US, Portugal and Spain. The book explores the transcultural connections, as well as the cultural specificities, that can be established between Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American and Latino contexts within and beyond the framework of the nation state. It suggests that the notion of home and of Basque motherland carry potentially different resonances for female directors.

Contents:

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

Part I Memory and History. 'Lost and invisible: a history of Latin American women filmmakers' / Patricia Torres San Martín ; 'Feminine spaces of memory: mourning and melodrama in Para que no me olvides (2005) by Patricia Ferreira' / Isolina Ballesteros ; 'Women filmmakers and citizenship in Brazil from Bossa Nova to the Retomada' / Catherine Benamou and Leslie Marsh ; 'Ana Mariscal: signature, event, context' / Steven Marsh ; 'Rosario Pi and the challenge of social and cinematic conventions during the Second Republic' / Alejandro Melero Salvador

' Deterritorialised intimacies: The documentary legacy of Sara Gómez in three contemporary women filmmakers' / María Caridad Cumaná González and Susan Lord.

Part II: Culture and conflict. 'Ana Díez: Basque cinema, gender and the (home)land' / Ann Davies ; 'Slipping discursive frameworks: gender (and) politics in Colombian women's documentary' / Deborah Martin ; 'The "poetics of transformation" in the works of Lourdes Portillo' / Rosa Linda Fregoso.

Part III: Migration, transnationalism and borders. A disjunctive order: place and space in Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words (2005)' / Helena López ; 'Reconfiguring the rural: fettered geographies, unsettled histories and the abyss of alienation in the work of Spanish women filmmakers' / Parvati Nair ; 'Tracing the border: the "frontier condition" in María Novaro's Sin dejar huella' / Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro.

Part IV: Subjectivity. 'Genealogies of the self: (auto)biography in Sandra Kogut's Um Passaporte Húngaro (2001) and Albertina Carri's Los rubios (2003)' / Charlotte Gleghorn ; 'Filming in the feminine: subjective realism, social disintegration and bodily affection in Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga (2001)' / Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla ; 'Everything to play for: renegotiating Chilean identity in Alicia Scherson's Play (2005)' / Sarah Wright ; 'The politics of pathos in Pilar Miró's's Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980)' / Tom Whittaker ; 'Icíar Bollaín's "Carte de Tendre": mapping female subjectivity for the turn of the millennium' / Jo Evans

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526141477

1526141477

OCLC:

1518569354