Women Filmmakers in Mexico

The Country of Which We Dream

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by Elissa J. Rashkin

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Mexico

Keywords

Mexico, director, woman

Publishing date

2001

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 310 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-292-77109-6
978-0-292-77109-3

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Book Presentation:
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.

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