Brazilian Women`s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy, Leslie Marsh

 

Filling this void, Brazilian Womens Filmmaking focuses on womens film production in Brazil from the mid-1970s to the current era. Leslie L. Marsh explains how womens filmmaking contributed to the reformulation of sexual, cultural, and political citizenship during Brazils fight for the return and expansion of civil rights during the 1970s and 1980s and the recent questioning of the quality of democracy in the 1990s and 2000s. She interprets key films by Ana Carolina and Tizuka Yamasaki, documentaries with social themes, and independent videos supported by archival research and extensive interviews with Brazilian women filmmakers. Despite changes in production contexts, recent Brazilian womens films have furthered feminist debates regarding citizenship while raising concerns about the quality of the emergent democracy. Brazilian Womens Filmmaking offers a unique view of how womens audiovisual production has intersected with the reconfigurations of gender and female sexuality put forth by the womens movements in Brazil and continuing demands for greater social, cultural, and political inclusion.