XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema

Session Submission Type: Complete Panel

Abstract

This panel will examine the diverse production and distribution spaces that women filmmakers of the 21st-century are working in, including documentary, experimental, and short filmmaking, as well as commercial feature films. An intersectional approach runs throughout the papers with complex considerations around gender, race, sexuality, and class. The panel features a mix of research methods and genres, with macro-level political, economic, and industry-wide views of gender disparities alongside close-readings of individual films and specific filmmaker perspectives/narratives/styles.

Organizer/Chair: Jack A. Draper III, University of Missouri
Presenter 1: Jack A. Draper III
Presenter 2: Reighan Gillam, Dartmouth College
Presenter 3: Paula Halperin, Purchase College, SUNY
Presenter 4: Rebecca Atencio, Tulane University
Moderator: Cacilda Rêgo, Utah State University

Sub Unit

• XVII Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association

Individual Presentations

• Motherhood and Making Kin in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema - Jack Draper III, University of Missouri

• Afro-Brazilian Women Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente’s Standpoint Cinema - Jack Draper III, University of Missouri

• Maria Augusta Ramos and the Theater of State institutions: From the Trilogia da justiça to Amigo secreto - Paula Halperin, Purchase College, SUNY

• #PrimeiroAssédio and Film: The Case of Paula Sacchetta’s Precisamos Falar do Assédio - Rebecca Atencio, Tulane

Chair

• Jack Draper III, University of Missouri

Moderator

• Jack Draper III, University of Missouri

Session Organizer

• Jack Draper III, University of Missouri