Before Bemberg: Women Filmmakers in Argentina

by Matt Losada

Before Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers that has centered on Mar a Luisa Bemberg to the exclusion of her predecessors. Its introductory discussion of the abundant initial participation by women in film production in the 1910s is followed by an account of their exclusion from creative roles in the studio cinema, which was only altered by the opportunities opened by a boom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978814550
• ISBN13: 9781978814554
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"