Latin American Women Filmmakers: Social and Cultural Perspectives

by Traci Roberts-Camps

Overview

Women are noticeably marginalized from the Latin American film industry, with lower budgets and inadequate distribution, and they often rely on their creativity to make more interesting films. This book highlights the voices and stories of some of these directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Roberts-Camps's insightful exploration is the most broad-ranging account of its kind, making the book relevant to the study of literature as well as film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826358271
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Series:	Pasó Por Aquí Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Traci Roberts-Camps is an associate professor of Latin American literature and film in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of the Pacific. She lives in Berkeley, California, and is the author of Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Transgression: Maria Luisa Bemberg's Camila and Yo, la peor de todas 1

Chapter 2 Isolation: Lucía Puenzo's XXY and El niño pez 18

Chapter 3 Female Solidarity: The Films of Maria Novaro 36

Chapter 4 The Female Body as Spectacle: Dana Rotberg's Ángel de fuego and La mujer del pueblo: Otilia Rauda 54

Chapter 5 Parallelism: Carmen Luz Parot's Estadio Nacional 73

Chapter 6 Escape: Alicia Scherson's Play 90

Chapter 7 Urban and Inner Lives: The Films of Suzana Amaral 108

Chapter 8 Being Brazilian: National Identity in Tizuka Yamasaki's Gaijin: Cawinhos da Liberdade and Gaijin: Ama-me como sou 126

Conclusion 141

Notes 145

Filmography 161

Bibliography 163

Index 173

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is a valuable source of information about the work of women directors in Latin America, especially in light of the scarcity of scholarly studies in film theory and criticism about women directors, both in the region and more widely."—Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

"A thought-provoking and informative study. . . . The sharply delineated analyses, supported by solid research on social and historical contexts and film techniques, make it an accessible and useful text for students and scholars of all levels."

—Studies in Latin American Popular Culture

"Women filmmakers are marginalized, underdistributed, and underappreciated in Latin America, so how is it that their work is so good? Roberts-Camps explores the work of eight filmmakers from four countries to explore the challenges, and the opportunities, of making important films outside the commercial machine."—Debra A. Castillo, author of Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture

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