Latin American Cinema

"Cheryl Dunye queers the mammy in her film The Watermelon Woman (1996) through the character Fae Richards. Fae is the screen's first Black lesbian mammy, and like the other lesbians of color in Dunye's films (who are filmmakers, actresses, mothers, workers, and lovers in interracial relationships), Fae is both a visible and complex character. Dunye presents lesbians at intersections of race, class, age, and size in the film, and Dunye's queering of the mammy stereotype problematizes the classic and enduring mammy imagery. American filmmakers often uphold the mammy's cultural boundaries of asexuality and fat embodiment; however, Dunye's reading liberates her. Queering by a Black lesbian filmmaker provides representation and interpretation of the mammy from the margins. This complicates the mammy stereotype as a culturally prevalent representation of Black womanhood and disrupts the mammy's legacy in American cinema and culture."--abstract

"Charles Burnett, award-winning filmmaker and scriptwriter, creates images on film that reflect African American culture. Burnett's films celebrate the Black familiar and confirm that African American life is symbolically rich with tradition, yet unique and colorful. His films, Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother's Wedding (1983), To Sleep With Anger (1990), and The Glass Shield (1994), were critically analyzed to determine how his use of creative plots, verbal imagery, and African American cultural traditions serve to depict realistic pictures of African American life on screen. It is clear the images he creates emanate from his experiences, not those created and supported by the Hollywood studio system. He is a gifted narratist and remains true to the tenets of the independent film movement, "The L.A. Rebellion.""--abstract

"The article focuses on visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography and the film "Atanarjuat." The author examines what "visual sovereignty" means for indigenous Inuit people and the disempowering structures of cinematic dominance and stereotype. He analyzes "Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)," a film directed by an Inuit, Zacharias Kunuk, in an effort to investigate the ways the film is embedded within discourses about Arctic people. He also describes the permeating images of Native Americans in ethnographic films."--abstract

"This article discusses Native American sovereignty, reflecting on concepts of Native Indigeneity, self-determination, and nationhood. The author reflects on her experiences as a member of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquoian peoples. She also comments on working for the U.S. National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). The work and ideas of Haudenosaunee statesman Deskaheh, or Levi General, activist Sotsisowah, or John Mohawk, and Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfred are also discussed."

This article consists of an overview of some of the most recent and influential academic work on the history and esthetics of Brazilian cinema, followed by some speculative notes on the future of Brazilian film scholarship. Based on recent trends and topics in the field of Film Studies in Brazil, I intend to demonstrate how the latest transformations in the Brazilian mediascapes and film market have stirred and molded new approaches to Brazilian cinema, notably amidst a new generation of film scholars. This overview covers Brazilian cinema and its related film scholarship from the "Retomada" years (1993–1994) up until some of the latest film releases (2019), or "Newest Brazilian Cinema." Without the presumption of being an exhaustive account, this article aims to provide a panoramic and introductory annotated bibliography that will be useful for further studies and an inventory of current state-of-the-art film scholarship in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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