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Lourdes Portillo : The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films / ed. by Rosa Linda Fregoso.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicana MattersPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292789128
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/0233/092 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Woman behind the Camera -- 1. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1998) -- 2. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1994) -- 3. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1990) -- Part Two: Critical Perspectives -- 4. Devils and Ghosts, Mothers and Immigrants: A Critical Retrospective of the Works of Lourdes Portillo -- 5. Ironic Framings: A Queer Reading of the Family (Melo)drama in Lourdes Portillo’s The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme -- 6. Performances of The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme -- 7. Who Is the Devil, and How or Why Does He or She Sleep? Viewing a Chicana Film in Mexico -- 18. Pinning Down the Bad-Luck Butterfly: Photography and Identity in the Films of Lourdes Portillo -- Part Three: Production Materials -- 9. Script notes for Después del terremoto -- 10. Cast List for Después del terremoto -- 11. Funding application for Después del terremoto -- 12. Letter for Oscar Nomination of Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 13. Transcript for English and Spanish narration of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead -- 14. Transcript for interviews in La Ofrenda -- 15. Screenplay for Columbus on Trial -- 16. Floor plans for set design of Columbus on Trial -- 17. Storyboard for Columbus on Trial -- Appendix: ¿Quién es el diablo, cómo y por qué duerme? La lectura de una película chicana en México -- Filmography -- Major Awards and Honors -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: Después del Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, The Devil Never Sleeps, and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena. The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view. Rosa Linda Fregoso, the volume editor, has organized the book into three parts: interviews (by Fregoso and Kathleen Newman and B. Ruby Rich); critical perspectives (essays by Fregoso, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Sylvie Thouard, Norma Iglesias, and Barbara McBane); and production materials (screenplays, script notes, storyboards, etc.). This innovative collection provides "inside" information on the challenges of making independent films. By describing the production constraints Portillo has surmounted, Fregoso deepens our appreciation of this gifted filmmaker's life, her struggles, and the evolution of her art.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Woman behind the Camera -- 1. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1998) -- 2. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1994) -- 3. Interview with Lourdes Portillo (1990) -- Part Two: Critical Perspectives -- 4. Devils and Ghosts, Mothers and Immigrants: A Critical Retrospective of the Works of Lourdes Portillo -- 5. Ironic Framings: A Queer Reading of the Family (Melo)drama in Lourdes Portillo’s The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme -- 6. Performances of The Devil Never Sleeps/El diablo nunca duerme -- 7. Who Is the Devil, and How or Why Does He or She Sleep? Viewing a Chicana Film in Mexico -- 18. Pinning Down the Bad-Luck Butterfly: Photography and Identity in the Films of Lourdes Portillo -- Part Three: Production Materials -- 9. Script notes for Después del terremoto -- 10. Cast List for Después del terremoto -- 11. Funding application for Después del terremoto -- 12. Letter for Oscar Nomination of Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 13. Transcript for English and Spanish narration of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead -- 14. Transcript for interviews in La Ofrenda -- 15. Screenplay for Columbus on Trial -- 16. Floor plans for set design of Columbus on Trial -- 17. Storyboard for Columbus on Trial -- Appendix: ¿Quién es el diablo, cómo y por qué duerme? La lectura de una película chicana en México -- Filmography -- Major Awards and Honors -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: Después del Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, The Devil Never Sleeps, and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena. The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view. Rosa Linda Fregoso, the volume editor, has organized the book into three parts: interviews (by Fregoso and Kathleen Newman and B. Ruby Rich); critical perspectives (essays by Fregoso, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Sylvie Thouard, Norma Iglesias, and Barbara McBane); and production materials (screenplays, script notes, storyboards, etc.). This innovative collection provides "inside" information on the challenges of making independent films. By describing the production constraints Portillo has surmounted, Fregoso deepens our appreciation of this gifted filmmaker's life, her struggles, and the evolution of her art.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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