Pathbreakers of Peruvian Fiction Cinema

Barrow, Sarah (2024) Pathbreakers of Peruvian Fiction Cinema. In: Female Agency in Films Made by Latin American Women. Global Cinema . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 357-378. ISBN 978-3-031-72599-9

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Abstract

Peruvian cinema has achieved unprecedented prominence in recent years among scholars, critics, and spectators, winning accolades at prestigious global events. And yet the contribution to this success by women remains largely unacknowledged. This essay examines the work of two of the most prominent of these filmmakers. Globally renowned Claudia Llosa has crafted a body of work that takes on female-focused themes such as coming of age (Madeinusa, 2005), sexual violence (La Teta Asustada, The Milk of Sorrow 2008), and motherhood (Aloft, 2014 and Distancia de rescate, Fever Dream 2021), in the context of contamination, failure, and abandonment. Melina León’s multi-award-winning debut feature Canción sin nombre (Song without a Name 2019) tells of the desperate search by a young Andean woman from the Andes for her daughter, stolen at birth. Through analyzing the presentation, by women, of trauma and desire in these films, this essay thus seeks to show how their female protagonists are inscribed on our screens as complex subjects with agency.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Funding information: The research that informed part of this essay was funded by a British Academy Small Grant to support a broader project about Peruvian women filmmakers.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	arts and humanities (miscellaneous),visual arts and performing arts,sdg 5 - gender equality,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1201
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Media, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Women of Influence - Community Participation in Peru Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2024 08:30
Last Modified:	17 Feb 2025 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96973
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-72600-2_16

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