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Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema highlights the bold, inspiring, and diverse work of female filmmakers-including directors, screenwriters, and producers-and female protagonists in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry. This volume examines the diverse production and distribution spaces these filmmakers are working in, including documentary, experimental, and short filmmaking, as well as commercial feature films. An intersectional approach runs throughout the chapters with complex considerations around gender, race, sexuality, and class. The book features a mix of research methods and genres, with macro-level political, economic, and industry-wide views of gender disparities appearing alongside in-depth conversations with contemporary filmmakers Maria Augusta Ramos, Petra Costa, Mari Corrêa, and Paula Sacchetta, focused on micro-level personal experiences. In bringing together original essays and interviews, the volume provides valuable information for students of Brazil in general and of Brazilian film in particular.
"The prose of the essays is readable, and the scholarly apparatus is thorough." — CHOICE
"Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema looks beyond the white, male filmmaking canon and examines the impact of film viewing beyond the traditional cinema-going experience. Unique in its coverage, this collection makes a very significant contribution to the field." — Stephanie Dennison, author of Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Introduction
Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo
Part 1: Breaking Ground/Making Space in the Industry
1. Recognizing Women's Contributions to Brazilian Cinema
Cacilda M. Rêgo
2. Behind the Scenes: Brazilian Women Screenwriters in Film and Television
Leslie L. Marsh
3. Resistance and Online Activism: Brazilian Women Filmmakers' Initiatives (2014–2017)
Daniela Verztman Bagdadi
4. Interview with Maria Augusta Ramos
Jack A. Draper III, Cacilda M. Rêgo, and Gustavo Procopio Furtado
Part 2: Politics of Public/Private Spaces
5. From Tweets to the Streets: Women's Documentary Filmmaking and Brazil's Feminist SpringRebecca J. Atencio
6. Motherhood and Making Kin in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Jack A. Draper III
7. The Many Mirrors of Maria Augusta Ramos: Landscape, Institutions, and Everyday Lives in Contemporary Brazil
Paula Halperin
8. Interview with Petra Costa
Jack A. Draper III
Part 3: Intersecting Identities
9. Conditions for a Twenty-First-Century Black Woman Cinema in Brazil: The Politics and Aesthetics of Yasmin Thayná's Audiovisual Practice
María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez
10. Afro-Brazilian Women Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente's Standpoint Cinema (Cinema of O Lugar de Fala)
Reighan Gillam
11. Interview with Mari Corrêa
Gustavo Procopio Furtado
12. Interview with Paula Sacchetta
Rebecca J. Atencio
Contributors
Index