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Women filmmakers in Mexico : the country of which we dream / Elissa J. Rashkin

By:

Rashkin, Elissa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , 2001Description: 298 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780292771093

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.4308 RAS

LOC classification:

PS3569.A46656 E64 1994

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	791.4308 RAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		052371

Annotated filmography: p. 239-263

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and index

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.

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.

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