Women Filmmakers in Mexico : : The Country of Which We Dream / / Elissa J. Rashkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rashkin, Elissa J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)

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 Cortés, Guita Schyfter, María 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction An “Other Cinema” -- Part one Histories -- Chapter 1 Trespassers: Women Directors before 1960 -- Chapter 2 Student and Feminist Film, 1961–1980 -- Part two Revisions -- Chapter 3 Marisa Sistach: The Other Gaze -- Chapter 4 Busi Cortés: Telling Romelia’s Secrets -- Chapter 5 Guita Schyfter: The Chicken and the Egg -- Chapter 6 María Novaro: Exploring the Mythic Nation -- Chapter 7 Dana Rotberg: Modernity and Marginality -- Conclusion: Borders and Boundaries of National Cinema -- Annotated Filmography -- Notes -- Notes -- Index