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Author:   Parvati Nair ,  Julian Gutierrez-Albilla ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.422kg
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9781784991043

ISBN 10:   178499104
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 October 2015
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Parvati Nair and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla 1. Transnational co-productions and female filmmakers: the cases of Lucrecia Martel and Isabel Coixet – Paul Julian Smith Part I: Memory and History 2. Lost and invisible: a history of Latin American women filmmakers – Patricia Torres San Martín 3. Feminine spaces of memory: mourning and melodrama in Para que no me olvides (2005) by Patricia Ferreira – Isolina Ballesteros 4. Women filmmakers and citizenship in Brazil from Bossa Nova to the Retomada – Catherine Benamou and Leslie Marsh 5. Ana Mariscal: signature, event, context – Steven Marsh 6. Rosario Pi and the challenge of social and cinematic conventions during the Second Republic – Alejandro Melero Salvador 7. Deterritorialised intimacies: The documentary legacy of Sara Gómez in three contemporary women filmmakers – María Caridad Cumana González and Susan Lord Part II: Culture and conflict 8. Ana Díez: Basque cinema, gender and the (home)land – Ann Davies 9. Slipping discursive frameworks: gender (and) politics in Colombian women’s documentary – Deborah Martin 10. The 'poetics of transformation' in the works of Lourdes Portillo – Rosa Linda Fregoso Part III: Migration, transnationalism and borders 11. A disjunctive order: place and space in Isabel Coixet’s The Secret Life of Words (2005) – Helena López 12. Reconfiguring the rural: fettered geographies, unsettled histories and the abyss of alienation in the work of Spanish women filmmakers – Parvati Nair 13. Tracing the border: the “frontier condition” in María Novaro’s Sin dejar huella – Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro Part IV: Subjectivity 14. Genealogies of the self: (auto)biography in Sandra Kogut’s Um passaporte húngaro (2001) and Albertina Carri’s Los rubios (2003) – Charlotte Gleghorn 15. Filming in the feminine: subjective realism, social disintegration and bodily affection in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga (2001) – Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla 16. Everything to play for: renegotiating Chilean identity in Alicia Scherson’s Play (2005) – Sarah Wright 17. The politics of pathos in Pilar Miró’s Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980) – Tom Whittaker 18. Icíar Bollaín’s 'Carte de Tendre': mapping female subjectivity for the turn of the millennium – Jo Evans 19. Murmuring another ('s) story: histories under the sign of the feminine, pre- and post- the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 – Rui Gonçalves Miranda -- .

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All in all, these essays walk a virtuoso tightrope, exploring alterity and agency high up in the air, by helping us to see all sorts of directorial 'slippages', and are thus unique and valued additions to our reading on film. -- Diane E. Marting. BSS, XCll (2015)

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Parvati Nair is Founding Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility in Barcelona and Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies at Queen Mary, University of London Julin Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California

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