Description: Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.
Review Quotes:
"The prose of the essays is readable, and the scholarly apparatus is thorough." -- CHOICE
"Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema looks beyond the white, male filmmaking canon and examines the impact of film viewing beyond the traditional cinema-going experience. Unique in its coverage, this collection makes a very significant contribution to the field." -- Stephanie Dennison, author of Remapping Brazilian Film Culture in the Twenty-First Century