Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics
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.

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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics
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.

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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784537111
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/23/2017
Series: World Cinema
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 jourbanal 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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xiv

Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight B. Ruby Rich xv

Introduction Deborah Martin Deborah Shaw 1

I Industrial Contexts

1 Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s Lúcia Nagib 31

2 Through Female Eyes: Retraining Peru on Screen Sarah Barrow 48

3 Parando la olla documental: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film Claudia Bossay María-Paz Peirano 70

II Representations

4 Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing Love (2009) Catherine Leen 99

5 Intimacy and Distance - Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza and El niño pez/The Fish Child Deborah Shaw 123

6 Women's Filmmaking and Comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos (2002) and É Proibido Fumar (2009) Leslie L. Marsh 149

7 Young Women at the Margins: Discourses on Exclusion in Two Films by Solveig Hoogesteijn Constanza Burucúa 172

III Key Agents

8 Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The Case of Marcela Fernández Violante Niamh Thornton 197

9 Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics Marvin D'Lugo 217

10 Plnneta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking Deborah Martin 241

Index 263

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