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Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women
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ISBN No.: 9783031725999
Pages: xv, 365
Year: 202501
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 248.39
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Chapter 1: Introduction: Female Agency in Latin American Films: Women Autonomy and Empowerment Over the Patriarchal Gaze.- Part One: Agency, Perception, and the Female Gaze.- Chapter 2: Perturbed Genders in Lucrecia Martel.- Chapter 3: Memory, Disability and Space in Mafifa (Daniela Muñoz Barroso 2021).- Chapter 4: Intimate Documentaries Made by Women in Colombia: Beyond the Patriarchal Gaze.- Part Two: Queering the Gaze: Politics, Sexualities, and Female Desire.- Chapter 5: A Journey with an Expiration Date: Notes on Amnesia Letal's Film Travesía Travesti.- Chapter 6: Reimagining the Sexual Subject: Feminist Politics and Visual Pleasure in Contemporary Argentine Cinema.


- Chapter 7: Intersexuality, Polyamory, and Lesbianism in Women's Filmmaking: Patricia Ortega's Yo, Imposible (2018) and Ruth Caudeli's Petit Mal (2022).- Part Three: Motherhood / Girlhood.- Chapter 8: Creating A Feminist Gaze?: Motherhood and Identity in Recent Costa Rican Cinema.- Chapter 9: Motherhood, Disappearance, and Agency in Mexican Films Made by Women: Sin señas particulares (Fernanda Valadez 2020) and La civil (Teodora Mihai 2021).- Chapter 10: "Para verte mejor": Gaze and Aesthetics in Chilean Bildungsfilms.- Part Four: Female Affect: Care, Bonding, and Community.- Chapter 11: The Balance between Care and Self-affirmation: Disability and the Family in Latin American Film.- Chapter 12: Necronarratives, Ethics of Care, and Female Bonding in 21st Century Puerto Rican Cinema: Perfume de gardenias (2021) and La pecera (2023).


- Chapter 13: Kitchen Conversation and Photographic Memory: A Focus on Female-Centered Narratives of Lineage and Liberation in Brazilian Film.- Part Five: Intersectionality, Decolonization, and Subjectivities.- Chapter 14: Making Home: Feminist Activism in Two Peruvian Audiovisual Projects.- Chapter 15: Mexican Female Filmmakers: Shifting the Representation of Indigenous Women.- Chapter 16: Pathbreakers of Peruvian Fiction Cinema.


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