Redirecting the Gaze

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>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.</p>