Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World(Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)

Series: Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video

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 kn