Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream
ISBN: 9780292798106
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Mexico -- History; Women motion picture producers and directors -- Mexico;

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, "women's cinema" in Mexico flourished. Challenging conventional representations of women, female filmmakers began telling their own stories. In Women Filmmakers in Mexico: The Country of Which We Dream, Elissa J. Rashkin undertakes a rigorous, compelling examination of the history of film by Mexican women. Treating such themes as social marginalization (Dana Rotberg's Angel de Fuego), illegal abortion (Rosa Marta Fernandez's Cosas de Mujeres, or Women's Things) and sexual shame (El Secreto de Romelia by Busi Cortes), Rashkin deals in "bold act[s] of revision," debunking "romantic or tragic icons." B&w photos. ( Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Elissa J. Rashkin is an independent writer and scholar based in Mexico City and Portland, Oregon. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa.

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