Before Bemberg: Women Filmmakers in Argentina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978814547)

Before Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers that has centered on María Luisa Bemberg to the exclusion of her predecessors. Its introductory discussion of the abundant initial participation by women in film production in the 1910s is followed by an account of their exclusion from creative roles in the studio cinema, which was only altered by the opportunities opened by a boom in short filmmaking in the 1960s. The book then discusses in depth the six sound features directed by women before 1980, which, despite their trailblazing explorations of the perspectives of female characters, daring denunciations of authoritarianism and censorship, and modernizing formal invention, have been forgotten by Argentine film history. Looking at the work and roles of Eva Landeck, Vlasta Lah, María Herminia Avellaneda and María Elena Walsh and Maria Bemberg, the book recognizes these filmmakers' contributions at a significant moment in which movements to eliminate gender-based oppression and violence in Argentina and elsewhere are surging.

Watch some of the films discussed in the book with English subtitles (https: //www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_6F4am5024rklIWwExUVA?view_as=subscriber).

Author: Matt Losada
ISBN-10: 1978814542
ISBN-13: 9781978814547
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2020
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d