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1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: an "other cinema" -- Trespassers: women directors before 1960 -- Student and feminist film, 1961-1980 -- Marisa Sistach: the other gaze -- Busi Cortes: telling Romelia's secrets -- Guita Schyfter: the chicken and the egg -- Maria Novaro: exploring the mythic nation -- Dana Rotberg: modernity and marginality |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 Corteacute;s, Guita Schyfter, Mariacute;a 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Mexico -- History
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Mexico
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Motion pictures
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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Filmregisseurin
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Mexico
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Mexiko
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0292798105 |
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9780292798106 |
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0292771088 |
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9780292771086 |
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