Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers

1. Introduction. Women Filmmakers in Argentina: Reworking Cinematic Practices Mirna Vohnsen & Daniel Mourenza Auteurs.- 2. Lita Stantic: "The Personal Is Political" Is ProfessionalConstanza Burucúa.- 3. Jeanine Meerapfel: Cosmopolitan Auteur of the Immigrant ConditionMatt Losada.- 4. María  Victoria Menis's Counter-Cinema: La cámara oscura (2008) and María y el Araña (2013) Carolina Rocha.- Traumatic Experiences.- 5. Sisterhood on the Threshold in Julia Solomonoff's Hermanas (2005) Mirna Vohnsen.- 6. Screaming into the Abyss: Trauma and Witnessing in Albertina Carri's Los rubios (2003) and La rabia (2008) Fiona Clancy.- 7. Are You Listening? Voices and Images in Gabriela David's Taxi, un encuentro (2001) and Lucía Puenzo's El niño pez (2009) Ana Forcinito.- 8. Intersectionality in Gabriela David's La mosca en la ceniza (2010) Traci Roberts-Camps.- Aesthetics.- 9.They Are All around Us: Pain, Memory and Multisensory Images in Paula Markovitch's El premio (2011) Guillermo Severiche.- 10. The Oppositional Gaze in the Argentine Cinema of Migration: Negotiating Chinese Identity and Coloniality of Seeing in Nele Wohlatz's El futuro perfecto (2016) Pedro Cabello del Moral & Roberto Elvira Mathez.- 11. Manipulating the Gaze in La novia del desierto (dir. Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato, 2017) Andrea Meador Smith.- Genre Cinema.- 12. Women, Hybridity and Genre in the Films of Verónica Chen Beatriz Urraca.- 13. A Different Terror: Crudo Films and Women's Horror Cinema in Argentina Jonathan Risner.- 14. Girlhood and the Uncanny in the Coming-of-Age Genre: Abrir puertas y ventanas (dir. Milagros Mumenthaler, 2011) and Mamá, mamá, mamá (dir. Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière, 2020) Daniel Mourenza.- Epilogue. On Cinematic Disobedience Inela Selimovic

Dr Mirna Vohnsen is Assistant Lecturer in Spanish at Technological University Dublin. She specialises in contemporary Argentine cinema and culture. She is the author of Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Rethinking Argentinidad (2019) and the co-author of Eva Perón: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works (2021).
Dr Daniel Mourenza is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Cultural Studies at Radboud Universiteit. His research focuses on film theory, visual culture and Spanish and Latin American cinema. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film (2020). Mourenza has also co-edited a special issue of Parallax on 'Barbarism'.