Lourdes Portillo

The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films

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Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Lourdes Portillo

Keywords

Lourdes Portillo, Mexico

Publishing date

2001

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 328 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-292-72525-6
978-0-292-72525-6

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Book Presentation:
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: Después del Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead,The Devil Never Sleeps, and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena.

The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view. Rosa Linda Fregoso, the volume editor, has organized the book into three parts: interviews (by Fregoso and Kathleen Newman and B. Ruby Rich); critical perspectives (essays by Fregoso, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Sylvie Thouard, Norma Iglesias, and Barbara McBane); and production materials (screenplays, script notes, storyboards, etc.).

This innovative collection provides "inside" information on the challenges of making independent films. By describing the production constraints Portillo has surmounted, Fregoso deepens our appreciation of this gifted filmmaker's life, her struggles, and the evolution of her art.

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