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Performing the border
Title
Performing the border / Women Make Movies ; a film by Ursula Biemann.
Publication
[New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1999]
Copyright Notice Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (43 min.)) : sound, color
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 19, 2022).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the film explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.
Variant and related titles
Docuseek 3rd Edition.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Spanish
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2022
Videorecording number
wm-ptb Docuseek2
Subjects
Genre/Form
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Women Make Movies (Firm), distributor.
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