Women filmmakers in Mexico : the country of which we dream
/ Elissa J. Rashkin
- Austin : University of Texas Press , 2001
- 298 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
English.
9780292771093
Motion pictures---History---Mexico Women motion picture producers and directors---Mexico