Full Description
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.
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
Lúcia 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 María-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 niño pez/The Fish Child
Deborah Shaw
Chapter 6. Women's filmmaking and comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos and É Proibido Fumar
Leslie Marsh
Chapter 7. Young women at the margins: Discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig Hoogesteijn
Constanza Burucúa
Part III: Key Agents
Chapter 8. Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The case of Marcela Fernández Violante
Niamh Thornton
Chapter 9. Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics
Marvin D'Lugo
Chapter 10. Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking
Deborah Martin
