Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 known in the United States and Europe.
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At the University of New Mexico Diana Robin is Professor of Classics and Director of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and Ira Jaffe is Professor of Film and Head of Media Arts. Robin is the author of Filelfo in Milan: Writings, 1451-1477 and editor and translator of Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist, by Laura Cereta.