Description: Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
Brief description: Ilana Dann Luna is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Arizona State University.
Review Quotes:
"Drawing from Mexican as well as European and North American theorists, Luna's volume has the advantage of putting multiple film-critical traditions in dialog ... Reading Luna's book invites us to imagine further possible extensions of her study." - Reception
"Adapting Gender demonstrates Luna's considerable skills as a scholar. She deftly carries out a careful analysis of the literary and cinematic texts, putting them in the context of the evolving publishing and film industries. Written in a lively and engaging style, this is a unique synthesis of the evolution of feminism and the roles women have had-indeed, at times, been limited to-in Mexico and what this has meant for their creative output." - Niamh Thornton, author of Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film