Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 25137252
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- ISBN
- 978-1784537111
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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D - Media, Culture and Communication
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output consists of the introduction, individual chapter, and the book that contains them, Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics (2017). Deborah Shaw co-edited this title with Dr Deborah Martin (UCL) for the World Cinema Series at I.B.Tauris (now Bloomsbury). The book includes an introduction (Martin and Shaw), a preface (B. Ruby Rich), and 10 chapters. It is divided into three parts: Industrial Contexts; Representations; and Key Agents.
The book responds to the unprecedented recent prominence of Latin American women filmmakers, yet also presents their neglected histories. It builds on B. Ruby Rich’s ‘An/other view of the New Latin American Cinema’ (1997), in particular her call for a politics of the personal and need to reconfigure the canon through a focus on women filmmakers. The book goes beyond the familiar concept of the exceptional woman director working against a male-dominated industry. Instead, it has a focus on specific Latin American film cultures. It is comprehensive in scope with chapters on women’s filmmaking in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and Chicanas in the US
Shaw’s chapter, ‘Intimacy and Distance: Domestic Servants in Latin American Women’s Cinema’ explores the class and ethnic power dynamics in the intimate spaces of the home through a focus on domestic servants. Shaw draws from Shireen Ally’s notion of the ‘dialectic of intimacy and distance’ (Ally 2015: 51) to explain these dynamics through close readings of two important Argentinian films. The chapter argues that ‘new social, aesthetic and political visions are emerging with films’ explorations into the class-riven private spaces of the home’ (124). As a result of the book Shaw and Martin delivered keynote talks at international conferences in Oregon, Cine-Lit (2019), and the Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Conference (the Institute for Latin American Studies and School of Advanced Studies, London 2017).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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