Special Session

Spanish and Portuguese / Film and Media Studies

Iliana Cuellar (University of California - Riverside)
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In thinking of the conference theme, “Shifting Perspectives,” the Women in Latin American Film and Media session invites proposals that seek to interrogate the Latin American film canon and highlight the contributions of women and the way they have worked with and against the canon.

The panel invites proposals that highlight the contributions women directors, producers, actors, etc. have had on the their respective industries and the Latin American film canon.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

- Public/Private

- New Latin American Cinema

- Documentary

- National Identity and Masculinity

- Aesthetics and the Political

- The Domestic and Quotidian

- The Gaze (Male/Female/Colonial/Postcolonial)

- Adaptation

- Queer and Trans Identity