This book will allow scholars and students of Latin American cinema and culture, as well as industry professionals, a deeper understanding of the emergence and impact of the filmmakers and their work, which has particular relevance for contemporary debates on feminism.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: Performing the Impossible in Plain Sight - B. Ruby Rich
• Introduction - Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw
• I INDUSTRIAL CONTEXTS
• 1 Beyond Difference: Female Participation in the Brazilian Film Revival of the 1990s - Lúcia Nagib
• 2 Through Female Eyes: Reframing Peru on Screen - Sarah Barrow
• 3 Parando la olla documental: Women and Contemporary Chilean Documentary Film - Claudia Bossay and María-Paz Peirano
• II REPRESENTATIONS
• 4 Beyond the Spitfire: Re-visioning Latinas in Sylvia Morales’ A Crushing Love (2009) - Catherine Leen
• 5 Intimacy and Distance – Domestic Servants in Latin American Women's Cinema: La mujer sin cabeza and El niño pez /The Fish Child - Deborah Shaw
• 6 Women's Filmmaking and Comedy in Brazil: Anna Muylaert's Durval Discos (2002) and É Proibido Fumar (2009) - Leslie L. Marsh
• 7 Young Women at the Margins: Discourses on Exclusion in Two Films by Solveig Hoogesteijn - Constanza Burucúa
• III KEY AGENTS
• 8 Re-Framing Mexican Women's Filmmaking: The Case of Marcela Fernández Violante - Niamh Thornton
• 9 Bertha Navarro and the Remapping of Latin American Cinema: Markets, Aesthetics, Cultural Politics - Marvin D'Lugo
• 10 Planeta ciénaga: Lucrecia Martel and Contemporary Argentine Women's Filmmaking - Deborah Martin