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Book SynopsisDeborah Martin is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at University CollegeLondon. She has published widely on Latin American film, including Painting, Literature and Filmin Colombian Feminine Culture: Border Guards, Nomads and Women (2012) and The Cinema ofLucrecia Martel (2016).Deborah Shaw is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where her keyresearch interests are in transnational film theory and Latin American cinema. She is the foundingco-editor of the Transnational Cinemas journal and her books include Contemporary Latin AmericanCinema: Ten Key Films (2003) and The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo delToro, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Alfonso Cuaron (2013).
Table of ContentsIntroduction Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight B. Ruby Rich Part 1: Industrial Contexts Chapter 1. Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s Lúcia Nagib Chapter 2. Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on Screen Sarah Barrow Chapter 3. “Parando la olla documental”: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film Claudia Bossay and María-Paz Peirano Part II: Representations Chapter 4. Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales’ A Crushing Love Catherine Leen Chapter 5. Intimacy and Distance: Domestic Servants in Latin American Women’s Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza/The Headless Woman and El niño pez/The Fish Child Deborah Shaw Chapter 6. Women’s filmmaking and comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert’s Durval Discos and É Proibido Fumar Leslie Marsh Chapter 7. Young women at the margins: Discourses on exclusion in two films by Solveig Hoogesteijn Constanza Burucúa Part III: Key Agents Chapter 8. Re-Framing Mexican Women’s Filmmaking: The case of Marcela Fernández Violante Niamh Thornton Chapter 9. Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics Marvin D’Lugo Chapter 10. Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women’s Filmmaking Deborah Martin
