num_pages: 390
description: Examines the work and aspirations of women filmmakers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in marginalized communities within the United States, with particular attention to issues of gender, race, nation, and aesthetics."This book provides a broad spectrum of essays on the phenomenon of Third Cinema, including considerations of directors and cinema in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For anyone looking for an introduction to the theory of Third Cinema and for an overview of films in this area, this is an invaluable work. Redirecting the Gaze is a must-read for any upper-level class in oppositional cinema studies. Many of the essays include historical overviews of the national cinema of specific Third World countries in addition to consideration of a particular director's work." -- John Hazlett, University of New OrleansRedirecting 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 known in the United States and Europe."This is a stunning book. A major accomplishment; the breadth of scholarship in this essential area of cinema is comprehensive and superbly organized. It is engaging and groundbreaking. It combines a number of different approaches to exciting new material, and includes rare interviews and rigorous critical investigations. The chapter on the Bolivian cinema is, in particular, utterly new and refreshing." -- Gwendolyn Foster, University of Nebraska, Lincoln"Redirecting the Gaze provides valuable insights into an important body of films. It emphasizes the importance of the films and their filmmakers within the specific contexts in which they were produced. By mobilizing historical, cultural, and contextual-specific approaches to women's filmmaking, it opens up space for a more inclusive theorization of feminist filmmaking and feminist film theory." -- Zuzana M. Pick, Carleton University
language: English
title: Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World
titlecomplete: Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: State University of New York Press