"Like Portillo's films, this collection provides passionate
critical responses that challenge convention on a global level. . .
. The text successfully negotiates biography, theory, and
production in a manner which enables readers to comprehend
Portillo's aesthetic choices." -- Alvina E. Quintana, author of
Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices
Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the
hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has
inspired her choice of subjects. With themes ranging from state
repression to AIDS, Portillo's films include: Despue s del
Terremoto, the Oscar-nominated Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza
de Mayo, La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead, The Devil Never Sleeps,
and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena.
The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is
collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of
authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes
typically hidden from view. Rosa Linda Fregoso, the volume editor,
has organized the book into three parts: interviews (by Fregoso and
Kathleen Newman and B. Ruby Rich); critical perspectives (essays by
Fregoso, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Sylvie Thouard, Norma Iglesias,
and Barbara McBane); and production materials (screenplays, script
notes, storyboards, etc.).
This innovative collection provides "inside" information on the
challenges of making independent films. By describing the
production constraints Portillo has surmounted, Fregoso deepens our
appreciation of this gifted filmmaker's life, her struggles, and
the evolution of her art.
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