'The world in a drop of water': the feminist vision of Patricia Howell
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Women in Latin America have emerged as a significant force in the film industry and according to statistics provided in 1987 by the Cinemateca Cubano, there are over 300 active women directors in the media. Many of them are self-proclaimed feminists, but their concept of feminism varies with that of Western Europeans and North Americans. They dwell on issues such as domestic violence, rape and pregnancy, and aim at educating the less privileged. Unfortunately, these women filmmakers, barring a few exceptions such as Sara Gomez from Cuba and Maria Luisa Bemberg from Argentina, have not been recognized in the United States and Europe.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 1992
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Nina Leibman and the Clothesline Project
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The author describes her experience of making a shirt for Nina Leibman, a television critic who was murdered in 1996. The shirt was donated to the Clothesline Project, a memorial modeled on the AIDS Quilt about violence against women..
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 1999
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Gender, power, and culture in the televisual world of 'Twin Peaks': a feminist critique
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The television show 'Twin Peaks' typified patriarchal law and order and offered violent representations of women. One of four US women is raped, and this television show began with that crime but treated it mysogynistically.
Publication Name: Journal of Film and Video
Subject: Motion pictures
ISSN: 0742-4671
Year: 1999
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