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Women Filmmakers in Mexico : The Country of Which We Dream / Elissa J. Rashkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292798106
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/082/0972 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.M4 R33 2001eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction An “Other Cinema” -- Part one Histories -- Chapter 1 Trespassers: Women Directors before 1960 -- Chapter 2 Student and Feminist Film, 1961–1980 -- Part two Revisions -- Chapter 3 Marisa Sistach: The Other Gaze -- Chapter 4 Busi Cortés: Telling Romelia’s Secrets -- Chapter 5 Guita Schyfter: The Chicken and the Egg -- Chapter 6 María Novaro: Exploring the Mythic Nation -- Chapter 7 Dana Rotberg: Modernity and Marginality -- Conclusion: Borders and Boundaries of National Cinema -- Annotated Filmography -- Notes -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction An “Other Cinema” -- Part one Histories -- Chapter 1 Trespassers: Women Directors before 1960 -- Chapter 2 Student and Feminist Film, 1961–1980 -- Part two Revisions -- Chapter 3 Marisa Sistach: The Other Gaze -- Chapter 4 Busi Cortés: Telling Romelia’s Secrets -- Chapter 5 Guita Schyfter: The Chicken and the Egg -- Chapter 6 María Novaro: Exploring the Mythic Nation -- Chapter 7 Dana Rotberg: Modernity and Marginality -- Conclusion: Borders and Boundaries of National Cinema -- Annotated Filmography -- Notes -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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