Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Luna, Ilana Dann
published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018.
©2018.
Part of: SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)
ISBN: 9781438468280
Edition: 1st ed.
Language: English
Part of: SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series
Subjects:
Print version:: Luna, Ilana Dann, Adapting Gender, Albany : State University of New York Press,c2018
Collection: E-Books adlr
Table of Contents

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Adapting Gender: An Introduction
Chapter 1 Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
From Literature to Film
Gendered Representation and the Reification of Roles
Feminist Praxis and "Palimpsestuous" Relationships
Chapter 2 Rebellious Daughters in El secreto de Romelia
Castellanos and Her Contemporaries
New Contexts: Cortés and the Creative Process
From Román to Romelia: Refocusing Women's Participation
In the Master's House
Displacing the Master: Reinscribing Women into (His)tory
The Personal as Political
(Not) Her Mother's Daughter
Chapter 3 Revolutionary Variations Entre (Pancho) Villa y una mujer desnuda
Critical Commercialism: Berman's Mass Appeal
Enter Villa: A National Icon Dismantled
Deformed Performances: A Potential for Subversion
Between Pancho Villa and a Betrayed Woman's Revolution
Genders and Genres: A Meditation on Violence and the Media
Chapter 4 Wedding the "Other" in Novia que te vea
Writing from the Margins: Jews in Mexican Cultural Production
Personalizing the Political
Performing the "Other": Tensions and Cultural Critique
Mothers and Daughters: Rupture and Tradition
Novel to Film: Languages of the Living
Dialogic Conciliations: Consuming the "Other"
Chapter 5 Sexual Tensions: Queering Feminism in De noche vienes, Esmeralda
From Respectability to Pushing the Envelope: Poniatowska and Hermosillo
Esmeralda's Bigamy: Betraying the Ideals of the Revolution
Effective Suffrage, No Reelection
Uneasy Interdependences: Esmeralda and Her Five Husbands
Of Camp Icons and Queer Iterations: Frida, Sor Juana, Rojo, and Vasconcelos
Betrothals or Betrayals: Whose Liberation Is This, Anyway?
Collusions and Conclusions
Appendix Filmography of Mexican Films with LGBTQ Content.
Films with Lesbian Characters and Homoerotic Female Relations
Fiction Features
Documentary Features
Fiction Shorts
Documentary Shorts
Films with Gay Male Characters, Drag Queens, Transvestites, and Male Homoerotic Relations
Fiction Features
Documentary Features
Fiction Shorts
Documentary Shorts
Films Focusing on Transgender or Third-Gender Characters
Fiction Features
Documentary Features
Fiction Shorts
Notes
Works Cited
Index.