Latin American Women Filmmakers : Production, Politics, Poetics.

Cover -- Half-title -- Endorsements -- Series information -- Title page -- Title page -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- I Industrial Contexts -- 1 Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s -- The Retomada and the rise of shared authorship -- Beyond representation -- Beyond difference -- Note -- References -- 2 Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on Screen -- Introduction -- Landmark women: the 'Llosa' effect -- Cinema, nation, gender and conflict: Marianne Eyde -- Memory and self-discovery: Rosario García-Montero -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Parando la olla documental: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film -- A diagnosis of the field: between precarious conditions and international success -- Collaborative production strategies and the professionalisation of the field -- Women's cinema? Themes and strategies in Chilean documentaries by women -- Women filmmakers, family and political trauma -- The expansion of the field: new themes and strategies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- II Representations -- 4 Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales' A Crushing Love (2009) -- Twenty-first century foxes: Latinas on and behind the screen -- Latinas, feminism and motherhood -- Motherhood in Chicana/o films: from mamís to mamás -- A Crushing Love: new visions of motherhood -- A Crushing Love: Latina and Latin American activism on screen -- Notes -- References -- 5 Intimacy and Distance - Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza ... -- Domestic servants and maids in Latin America: a brief contextual overview -- New politics in Latin American films featuring maids -- The films.

La mujer sin cabeza -- El niño pez -- Notes -- References -- 6 Women's Filmmaking and Comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos (2002) and É proibido fumar (2009) -- Introduction -- Muylaert and Brazilian (women's) filmmaking -- Comedy in context -- What's funny? -- Durval Discos: looking for meaning in domestic space -- É proibido fumar: infantilised singletons and the romantic dark comedy -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 7 Young Women at the Margins: Discourses on Exclusion in Two Films by Solveig Hoogesteijn -- Venezuelan cinema: formation of a national film industry -- Solveig Hoogesteijn: the early works of a female auteur -- Macu, la mujer del policía -- Maroa, una niña de la calle -- Conclusion: different contexts, different endings -- Notes -- References -- III Key Agents -- 8 Re-framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The Case of Marcela Fernández Violante -- De todos modos Juan te llamas (1975) -- Misterio (1980) -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 9 Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics -- Remappings -- Marketing -- Aesthetics and politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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