Peru: Glamour In The Andes - Indigenous Women In Peruvian Cinema

Peru: Glamour In The Andes - Indigenous Women In Peruvian Cinema   Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum, 2012   This study analyzes racist cultural representations in two purportedly pro-indigenous Peruvian films directed by non-indigenous filmmakers during and after the Peruvian civil war in which 70,000 people, mostly Quechua-speakers, were killed (1980–2000). I contend that in the films Gregorio (1984, dir. Grupo Chaski) and Madeinusa (2006 , dir. Claudia Llosa), the positive image of...

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