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Summary
Examines the work and aspirations of women filmmakers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in marginalized communities within the United States, with particular attention to issues of gender, race, nation, and aesthetics.
"This book provides a broad spectrum of essays on the phenomenon of Third Cinema, including considerations of directors and cinema in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For anyone looking for an introduction to the theory of Third Cinema and for an overview of films in this area, this is an invaluable work. Redirecting the Gaze is a must-read for any upper-level class in oppositional cinema studies. Many of the essays include historical overviews of the national cinema of specific Third World countries in addition to consideration of a particular director's work." -- John Hazlett, University of New Orleans
Redirecting the Gaze is primarily concerned with the cinematic portrayals of women by women directors working outside corporate America and Europe. The book examines cinematic works of the 1980s and 1990s by women filmmakers from Argentina, Bolivia, China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Senegal, Tanzania, and Venezuela, as well as by independent Black American and Chicano women, most of whom are scarcely known in the United States and Europe.
"This is a stunning book. A major accomplishment; the breadth of scholarship in this essential area of cinema is comprehensive and superbly organized. It is engaging and groundbreaking. It combines a number of different approaches to exciting new material, and includes rare interviews and rigorous critical investigations. The chapter on the Bolivian cinema is, in particular, utterly new and refreshing." -- Gwendolyn Foster, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Redirecting the Gaze provides valuable insights into an important body of films. It emphasizes the importance of the films and their filmmakers within the specific contexts in which they were produced. By mobilizing historical, cultural, and contextual-specific approaches to women's filmmaking, it opens up space for a more inclusive theorization of feminist filmmaking and feminist film theory." -- Zuzana M. Pick, Carleton University
At the University of New Mexico, Diana Robin is Professor of Classics and Director of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and Ira Jaffe is Professor of Film and Head of Media Arts. Robin is the author of Filelfo in Milan: Writings, 1451-1477 and editor and translator of CollectedLetters of a Renaissance Feminist, by Laura Cereta.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Diana Robin and Ira Jaffe
Chapter One, Al Cine de Las Mexicanas: Lola in the Limelight
Diane Sippl
Chapter Two Cuban Cinema: On the Threshold of Gender
Catherine Benamou
Chapter Three Making History: Julie Dash
Patricia Mellencamp
Chapter Four Reclaiming Images of Women in Films from Africa and the Black Diaspora
N. Frank Ukadike
Chapter Five In the Shadow of Race: Forging Gender in Bolivian Film and Video
Elena Feder
Chapter Six The Seen of the Crime
Karen Schwartzman
Chapter Seven Beyond the Glow of the Red Lantern; Or, What Does It Mean to Talk about Women's Cinema in China?
Hu Ying
Chapter Eight "Can the Subaltern Weep?" Mourning as Metaphor in Rudaali (The Crier)
Sumita S. Chakravarty
Chapter Nine Sacando los trapos al sol (airing dirty laundry) in Lourdes Portillo's Melodocumystery, The Devil Never Sleeps
Rosa Linda Fregoso
Chapter Ten María Luisa Bemberg's Miss Mary: Fragments of a Life and Career History
