Overview

This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present day. It establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part of these female filmmakers. Focusing on aesthetic, theoretical and socio-historical analyses, it questions the manifest or latent gender and sexual politics that inform and structure the emerging cinematic productions by women filmmakers in Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the US. With a combination of scholars from the UK, the US, Spain and Latin America, the volume documents and interprets a fascinating corpus of films made by Hispanic and Lusophone women and proposes research strategies and methodologies that can expand our understanding of socio-cultural and psychic constructions of gender and sexual politics. An essential resource to rethink notions of gender identity and subjectivity, it is a unique contribution to Spanish and Latin American Film Studies and Film Studies. -- .

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Author:   Parvati Nair ,  Julian Gutierrez-Albilla ,  Bethan Hirst ,  Parvati Nair
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780719083570

ISBN 10:   0719083575
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   06 December 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Parvati Nair and Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla 1. Transnational co-productions and female filmmakers: the cases of Lucrecia Martel and Isabel Coixet - Paul Julian Smith Part I: Memory and History 2. Lost and invisible: a history of Latin American women filmmakers - Patricia Torres San Martin 3. Feminine spaces of memory: mourning and melodrama in Para que no me olvides (2005) by Patricia Ferreira - Isolina Ballesteros 4. Women filmmakers and citizenship in Brazil from Bossa Nova to the Retomada - Catherine Benamou and Leslie Marsh 5. Ana Mariscal: signature, event, context - Steven Marsh 6. Rosario Pi and the challenge of social and cinematic conventions during the Second Republic - Alejandro Melero Salvador 7. Deterritorialised intimacies: The documentary legacy of Sara Gomez in three contemporary women filmmakers - Maria Caridad Cumana Gonzalez and Susan Lord Part II: Culture and conflict 8. Ana Diez: Basque cinema, gender and the (home)land - Ann Davies 9. Slipping discursive frameworks: gender (and) politics in Colombian women's documentary - Deborah Martin 10. The 'poetics of transformation' in the works of Lourdes Portillo - Rosa Linda Fregoso Part III: Migration, transnationalism and borders 11. A disjunctive order: place and space in Isabel Coixet's The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Helena Lopez 12. Reconfiguring the rural: fettered geographies, unsettled histories and the abyss of alienation in the work of Spanish women filmmakers - Parvati Nair 13. Tracing the border: the frontier condition in Maria Novaro's Sin dejar huella - Sofia Ruiz-Alfaro Part IV: Subjectivity 14. Genealogies of the self: (auto)biography in Sandra Kogut's Um passaporte hungaro (2001) and Albertina Carri's Los rubios (2003) - Charlotte Gleghorn 15. Filming in the feminine: subjective realism, social disintegration and bodily affection in Lucrecia Martel's La cienaga (2001) - Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla 16. Everything to play for: renegotiating Chilean identity in Alicia Scherson's Play (2005) - Sarah Wright 17. The politics of pathos in Pilar Miro's Gary Cooper, que estas en los cielos (1980) - Tom Whittaker 18. Iciar Bollain's 'Carte de Tendre': mapping female subjectivity for the turn of the millennium - Jo Evans 19. Murmuring another ('s) story: histories under the sign of the feminine, pre- and post- the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 - Rui Goncalves Miranda -- .

Reviews

All in all, these essays walk a virtuoso tightrope, exploring alterity and agency high up in the air, by helping us to see all sorts of directorial 'slippages', and are thus unique and valued additions to our reading on film. -- Diane E. Marting. BSS, XCII (2015)

Author Information

Parvati Nair is Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California -- .

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