Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Author:   Deborah Martin (University College London, UK) ,  Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781784537111


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 March 2017
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Our Price $336.38 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics


Add your own review!

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Deborah Martin (University College London, UK) ,  Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781784537111


ISBN 10:   178453711
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Introduction Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight B. Ruby Rich Part 1: Industrial Contexts Chapter 1. Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s Lucia Nagib Chapter 2. Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on Screen Sarah Barrow Chapter 3. Parando la olla documental : Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film Claudia Bossay and Maria-Paz Peirano Part II: Representations Chapter 4. Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing Love Catherine Leen Chapter 5. Intimacy and Distance: Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman and El nino pez/The Fish Child Deborah Shaw Chapter 6. Women's filmmaking and comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos and E Proibido Fumar Leslie Marsh Chapter 7. Young women at the margins: Discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig Hoogesteijn Constanza Burucua Part III: Key Agents Chapter 8. Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The case of Marcela Fernandez Violante Niamh Thornton Chapter 9. Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics Marvin D'Lugo Chapter 10. Planeta cienaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking Deborah Martin

Reviews

Focusing on the cinemas of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the Hispanic US, the essays collected here are brilliant advocates for filmmaking by Latin American women, a timely reminder that the personal is still political. --Andrea Noble, Durham University


Focusing on the cinemas of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and the Hispanic US, the essays collected here are brilliant advocates for filmmaking by Latin American women, a timely reminder that the personal is still political. --Andrea Noble, Durham University This exciting collection balances contextual analysis with close attention to individual films and the careers of more and less visible women working in different industry roles. A major contribution to not only film studies but also to current and future thinking about women's cultural production in Latin America. --Claire Williams, University of Oxford 'Provides a panorama of film, including documentaries, produced and/or directed by women from Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, and Argentina along with Hispanic women in the US... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' --CHOICE


Author Information

Deborah Martin is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at University CollegeLondon. She has published widely on Latin American film, including Painting, Literature and Filmin Colombian Feminine Culture: Border Guards, Nomads and Women (2012) and The Cinema ofLucrecia Martel (2016).Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where her keyresearch interests are in transnational film theory and Latin American cinema. She is the foundingco-editor of the Transnational Cinemas journal and her books include Contemporary Latin AmericanCinema: Ten Key Films (2003) and The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo delToro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron (2013).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List