TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rashkin,Elissa J.
TI  - Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream 
SN  - 9780292798106
AV  - PN1993.5.M4 R33 2001eb
U1  - 791.43/082/0972 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/771086
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292798106
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292798106/original
ER  -