Women Filmmakers In Mexico

Author : Elissa J. Rashkin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292774377

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Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin Pdf

Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers have become key figures in contemporary Mexican cinema. In this book, Elissa Rashkin documents how and why women filmmakers have achieved these successes, as she explores how the women's movement, film studies programs, governmental film policy, and the transformation of the intellectual sector since the 1960s have all affected women's filmmaking in Mexico. After a historical overview of Mexican women's filmmaking from the 1930s onward, Rashkin focuses on the work of five contemporary directors—Marisa Sistach, Busi Cortés, Guita Schyfter, María Novaro, and Dana Rotberg. Portraying the filmmakers as intellectuals participating in the public life of the nation, Rashkin examines how these directors have addressed questions of national identity through their films, replacing the patriarchal images and stereotypes of the classic Mexican cinema with feminist visions of a democratic and tolerant society.

Author : Deborah Martin,Deborah Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786731722

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Latin American Women Filmmakers by Deborah Martin,Deborah Shaw Pdf

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.

Author : Traci Roberts-Camps
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780826358271

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Latin American Women Filmmakers by Traci Roberts-Camps Pdf

This book highlights the voices and stories of Latin American women directors from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.

Author : Isabel Arredondo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786468041

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Motherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941-1991 by Isabel Arredondo Pdf

How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analysis, interviews with filmmakers, academic articles and film reviews from newspapers are used to answer the question and trace the changes in such depictions. Images of mothers in films by so-called third-wave filmmakers (Busi Cortes, Maria Novaro, Dana Rotberg and Marisa Sistach) are contrasted with those in Mexican classical films (1935-1950) and films from the 1970s and 1980s. There are some surprising conclusions. The most important restrictions in the depiction of mothers in classical cinema came not from the strict sexual norms of the 1940s but in reactions to women shown as having autonomous identities. Also, in contrast to classical films, third-wave films show a woman's problems within a social dimension, making motherhood political--in relation not to militancy within the left but to women's issues. Third-wave films approach the problems of Latin American society as those of individuals differentiated by gender, sexuality and ethnicity; in such films mothers are citizens directly affected by laws, economic policies and cultural beliefs.

Author : Parvati Nair,Julian Gutierrez-Albilla
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526141477

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Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers by Parvati Nair,Julian Gutierrez-Albilla Pdf

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.

Author : Traci Roberts-Camps
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780826358288

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Latin American Women Filmmakers by Traci Roberts-Camps Pdf

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.

Author : Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809380947

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Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood’s constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking. Foster provides a voice for Black and Asian women in the first detailed examination of the works of six contemporary Black and Asian women filmmakers. She also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices," documenting the work of other Black and Asian filmmakers. Foster analyzes the key films of Zeinabu irene Davis, "one of a growing number of independent Black women filmmakers who are actively constructing [in the words of bell hooks] ‘an oppositional gaze’"; British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah and Julie Dash, two filmmakers working with time and space; Pratibha Parmar, a Kenyan/Indian-born British Black filmmaker concerned with issues of representation, identity; cultural displacement, lesbianism, and racial identity; Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-born artist who revolutionized documentary filmmaking by displacing the "voyeuristic gaze of the ethnographic documentary filmmaker"; and Mira Nair, a Black Indian woman who concentrates on interracial identity.

Author : Isabel Arredondo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476602387

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Motherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941-1991 by Isabel Arredondo Pdf

How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analysis, interviews with filmmakers, academic articles and film reviews from newspapers are used to answer the question and trace the changes in such depictions. Images of mothers in films by so-called third-wave filmmakers (Busi Cortes, Maria Novaro, Dana Rotberg and Marisa Sistach) are contrasted with those in Mexican classical films (1935-1950) and films from the 1970s and 1980s. There are some surprising conclusions. The most important restrictions in the depiction of mothers in classical cinema came not from the strict sexual norms of the 1940s but in reactions to women shown as having autonomous identities. Also, in contrast to classical films, third-wave films show a woman's problems within a social dimension, making motherhood political--in relation not to militancy within the left but to women's issues. Third-wave films approach the problems of Latin American society as those of individuals differentiated by gender, sexuality and ethnicity; in such films mothers are citizens directly affected by laws, economic policies and cultural beliefs.

Author : Andrea Noble
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mexico
ISBN : 0415230101

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Mexican National Cinema by Andrea Noble Pdf

Examining key film texts and genres, and set in a broad historical and theoretical context, this student-friendly study provides a thorough and detailed account of the vital and complex relationship between cinema and national identity in Mexico.

Author : Ilana Dann Luna
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438468280

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Adapting Gender by Ilana Dann Luna Pdf

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico. Adapting Gender offers a cogent introduction to Mexico’s film industry, the history of women’s filmmaking in Mexico, a new approach to adaptation as a potential feminist strategy, and a cultural history of generational changes in Mexico. Ilana Dann Luna examines how adapted films have the potential to subvert not only the intentions of the source text, but how they can also interrupt the hegemony of gender stereotypes in a broader socio-political context. Luna follows the industrial shifts that began with Salinas de Gortari’s presidency, which made the long 1990s the precise moment in which subversive filmmakers, particularly women, were able to participate more fully in the industry and portrayed the lived experiences of women and non-gender-conforming men. The analysis focuses on Busi Cortés’s El secreto de Romelia (1988), an adaptation of Rosario Castellanos’s short novel El viudo Román (1964); Sabina Berman and Isabelle Tardán’s Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (1996), an adaptation of Berman’s own play, Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1992); Guita Schyfter’s Novia que te vea (1993), an adaptation of Rosa Nissán’s eponymous novel (1992); and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s De noche vienes, Esmeralda (1997), an adaptation of Elena Poniatowska’s short story “De noche vienes” (1979). These adapted texts established a significant alternative to monolithic notions of national (gendered) identity, while critiquing, updating, and even queering, notions of feminism in the Mexican context. Ilana Dann Luna is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Arizona State University.

Author : Jacqueline Levitin,Judith Plessis,Valerie Raoul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136743054

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Women Filmmakers by Jacqueline Levitin,Judith Plessis,Valerie Raoul Pdf

This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital to understanding the relationship of women to the art and business of filmmaking.

Author : Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496213839

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Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda Pdf

2020 Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize In post-1968 Mexico a group of artists and feminist activists began to question how feminine bodies were visually constructed and politicized across media. Participation of women was increasing in the public sphere, and the exclusive emphasis on written culture was giving way to audio-visual communications. Motivated by a desire for self-representation both visually and in politics, female artists and activists transformed existing regimes of media and visuality. Women Made Visible by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda uses a transnational and interdisciplinary lens to analyze the fundamental and overlooked role played by artists and feminist activists in changing the ways female bodies were viewed and appropriated. Through their concern for self-representation (both visually and in formal politics), these women played a crucial role in transforming existing regimes of media and visuality--increasingly important intellectual spheres of action. Foregrounding the work of female artists and their performative and visual, rather than written, interventions in urban space in Mexico City, Aceves Sepúlveda demonstrates that these women feminized Mexico's mediascapes and shaped the debates over the female body, gender difference, and sexual violence during the last decades of the twentieth century. Weaving together the practices of activists, filmmakers, visual artists, videographers, and photographers, Women Made Visible questions the disciplinary boundaries that have historically undermined the practices of female artists and activists and locates the development of Mexican second-wave feminism as a meaningful actor in the contested political spaces of the era, both in Mexico City and internationally.

Author : Michael Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135973704

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Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico by Michael Werner Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Isabel Arredondo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1032962481

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"I Am a Mother First" by Isabel Arredondo Pdf

Author : Joanne Hershfield,David R. Maciel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585241104

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Mexico's Cinema by Joanne Hershfield,David R. Maciel Pdf

In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers is a collection of fourteen essays that encompass the first 100 years of the cinema of Mexico. Included are original contributions written specifically for this title, plus a few classic pieces in the field of Mexican cinema studies never before available in English. These essays explore a variety of themes including race and ethnicity, gender issues, personalities, and the historical development of a national cinematic style. Each of the book's three sections-The Silent Cinema, The Golden Age, and The Contemporary Era-is preceded by a short introduction to the period and a presentation of the major themes addressed in the section. This insightful anthology is the first published study that includes pieces by Mexican and North American scholars, including a piece by the internationally acclaimed essayist Carlos Monsivais. Contributors include other acclaimed scholars and critics as well as young scholars who are currently making their mark in the area of film studies of Mexico. These authors represent various fields-community studies, film studies, cultural history, ethnic studies, and gender studies-making this volume an interdisciplinary resource, important for courses in Latin America and Third World cinema, Mexican history and culture, and Chicana/o and ethnic studies.