Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Theory, Practice and Difference - Softcover

Nair, Parvati; Gutiérrez-Albilla, Daniel Julián

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178499104X ISBN 13: 9781784991043

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This volume examines the films of Hispanic and Lusophone women filmmakers from the 1930s to the present, by working at the intersections between feminist film theory, gender studies and film practices by women in Latin America, the US, Portugal and Spain. Establishing resonances and disjunctions between films made by female filmmakers on both sides of the Atlantic, this critical study both fills a gap in and extends the field of Hispanic and Lusophone Film Studies. While the work of these filmmakers is considered within the Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American and Latino contexts from which they arise, the volume establishes productive connections between film practices across these geographical areas by identifying common areas of concern on the part of the filmmakers. The volume focuses on the aesthetic, theoretical and socio-historical analyses to question the manifest or latent gender and sexual politics that inform and structure the emerging number of cinematic productions by women filmmakers in Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the US, as well as the work of important women filmmakers who have contributed to their cinematographic industries since the silent period. With a combination of scholars from around the world, the volume documents and interprets a fascinating corpus of films and proposes research strategies and methodologies that can expand our understanding of socio-cultural and psychic constructions of gender and sexual politics. The volume is an essential resource to rethink notions of gender identity and subjectivity within national cultures and transnational frameworks that are neglected in current modes of feminist film theory within Anglo-American scholarship.

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Review:

All in all, these essays walk a virtuoso tightrope, exploring alterity and agency high up in the air, by helping us to see all sorts of directorial 'slippages', and are thus unique and valued additions to our reading on film., Diane E. Marting, University of Mississippi, BSS, XCll (2015), 1 March 2015

About the Author:

Parvati Nair is Founding Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility in Barcelona and Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies at Queen Mary, University of London Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California -- .

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 178499104X
• ISBN 13: 9781784991043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298