Deborah Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4052-8403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unorthodox and disobedient Jewish cosmopolitans on our screens: The case of Unorthodox (Schrader, Winger, 2020)
This article explores the relationship between cosmopolitanism, and secular and orthodox Jewish identities in recent Jewish film and television dramas with a focus on the Netflix series Unorthodox (Schrader 2020). It argues that Unorthodox presents a cosmopolitan image of Berlin and has Jews constitute an affirmative, symbolic and embodied presence in the multicultural city. The article demonstrates how this stands in contrast to historical negat…
A tale of two feminisms: Gender critical feminism, trans inclusive feminism and the case of Kathleen Stock
In this article I write on the rift between trans inclusive and gender critical feminists in the UK. I consider this division within university culture through a focus on the case of Kathleen Stock. I discuss the coverage of her resignation from the University of Sussex through a focus on The Daily Telegraph. From a trans inclusive feminist viewpoint, I discuss the way her case has been used to spread misinformation around universities, and trans…
Chilean and Transnational Performances of Disobedience: LasTesis and the Phenomenon of Un violador en tu camino
This article analyses the performance Un violador en tu camino created by Chilean feminist theatre collective LasTesis, shared by millions and re-staged across the globe. It explores the relationship between the original piece and theorist Rita Segato's insights on rape culture, and how it counters aspects of this culture. It examines how the transnational spread of Un violador counters tendencies of MeToo, and examines four cases of the performa…
Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film. Edited by Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw
This book presents a useful reminder that while the media has seized on the Trump administration’s multiple hostile acts against migrants, immigrants and DACA recipients as something new, the precarious situations these groups find themselves have a longer history. People throughout Latin America have chosen or been forced to migrate due to a range of urgent reasons: poverty, limited employment opportunities, violence and high homicide rates, and…
Serving the master text: Rethinking digital paratexts in the social issue film Who is Dayani Cristal
We live in an age of multiple digital platforms, where our entertainment, news, work, social life and social activism are conducted through our smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktop computers, and most probably a range of these simultaneously. This has significant consequences for our understanding of the primacy of certain texts over others, and has led to a dismantling of hierarchies relating to films and their paratexts. In this essay I foc…
Generating an authorial presence with Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy II: The Golden Army follows on from Guillermo del Toro's first feature in a number of ways. In this film, del Toro develops his role as a director of monsters; he continues to cross genre and cultural boundaries, bringing elements from high art and art cinema into this commercial venture. In this chapter, the author engages in discourse analysis to see that the presented paratexts reveal about the new ways in which auteurism can be cultiv…
Alfonso Cuarón’s first films in Mexico and the USA
Alfonso Cuarón's filmmaking career has many parallels to that of Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu. All have made a first film in Mexico, before consolidating their careers in the USA. Cuarón's first film, Sólo con tu pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria, 1991), was a national hit, but did not have the necessary ingredients or support to be a global success. Four years after making Sólo con tu pareja, Cuarón began his Hollywood c…
Babel and the global Hollywood gaze
Babel is one of the films of the Guillermo Arriaga/Alejandro González Iñárritu collaboration. Babel sets out to be a new sort of film, one that attempts to create a 'world cinema' gaze within a commercial Hollywood framework. This chapter examines how the team approaches this and asks whether the film succeeds in this attempt. It explores the tensions between progressive and conservative political agendas, and pay particular attention to the ways…
Grams: An American independent film made by Mexicans
The film, 21 Grams, is made by the core team of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Rodrigo Prieto, and Brigitte Broch. The score for the film is provided by Gustavo Santoalalla and is taken by the critical community, both popular and academic, as an American independent film, with the Mexican identities of the central filmmakers glossed over. The complexities involved in ascribing national identity to a film such as 21 Grams point to…
Crashing into the international film market with Amores perros
From Amores perros, to 21 Grams, to Babel, to Biutiful (2010), Alejandro González Iñárritu and his team have travelled from Mexico, to the USA, to multinational landscapes, and to the immigrant world of Barcelona. This chapter considers Amores perros within the context of Iñárritu's trajectory as a filmmaker. It demonstrates the ways in which Amores perros establishes signature traits that will be developed in the subsequent films that he directs…
Children of Men: The limits of radicalism
Children of Men is Alfonso Cuarón's greatest filmic achievement to date and constitutes an auteurist statement in the way that it demands that its director be taken seriously. It addresses weighty issues and sets out to provide an account of the most pressing problems facing humanity: environmental destruction (symbolised by infertility), mass migration, and the tyranny within democratic states. Children of Men is an ideal model case study for a …
Cronos: Introducing Guillermo del Toro
Cronos is a film that has been given an afterlife with the subsequent global success of Guillermo del Toro. Cronos is an interesting film to explore, as it shows del Toro without big budgets. At the time, it was the most expensive Mexican film ever made, with a budget of $2 million, according to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB); however, that is clearly miniscule in comparison with Hollywood and European art cinema productions. Most of the lite…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Between them, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón have made films that have been taken as Mexican, mainstream Hollywood, US independent, British, and Spanish, while Iñárritu's Babel further complicates national classifications. Their films have caused critics to rethink other classificatory borders, such…
Dedication
El laberinto del fauno: Breaking through the barriers of filmmaking
For many, El laberinto del fauno marks the pinnacle of Guillermo del Toro's filmmaking career. It is a film that has allowed del Toro to realise his creative potential, unencumbered by the budgetary limitations of Cronos or the rules governing Hollywood-funded genre products. This chapter explores the ways in which a freedom to create a new form of cinema is manifested in El laberinto by examining how the film traverses borders and creates a new …
Filmography
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive empirical material drawn from a Swedish context. The questions raised and answered in this book include the following: How does the experience of being the protagonist in a media scandal affect a person's everyday …
Cuarón finds his own path: Y tu mamá también
The only film over which Alfonso Cuarón had full creative control before making Y tu mamá también was Sólo con tu pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria, 1991); both films were co-written with his brother Carlos Cuarón. Y tu mamá también was produced by the company Anhelo Producciones co-founded by Cuarón and Jorge Vergara, a prominent Mexican businessman. This provided sufficient funds to make the film and launch an ambitious marketing campaign. T…
Index
The three amigos: The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón
Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón are the best-known Mexican directors internationally, yet none of them has directed a film in Mexico since 2001. This book examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films. The three directors were lobbying for tax initiatives to stimulate filmmaking, more opportunities for the distribution and exhibition of Mexica…
Fonds de financement européens et cinéma latino-américain: Altérisation et cinéphilie bourgeoise dans La teta asustada de Claudia Llosa
European Co-production Funds and Latin American Cinema: Processes of Othering and Bourgeois Cinephilia in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada
Latin American women's filmmaking has an unprecedented international profile thanks to the films of the Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, and the Argentine directors Lucía Puenzo and Lucrecia Martel. What is frequently unacknowledged when discussing the work of these award-winning filmmakers is the fact that all of their films are co-productions with Europe, and that programmes such as Cinéfondation, a programme aligned with the Cannes film festiv…
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English langu
Migrant identities in film: Migrations from Mexico and Central America to the United States
This article analyses filmic representations of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States, with a focus on Sin nombre (Fukunaga, 2009). Reference will also be made to other films including, The Gatekeeper (Juan Carlos Frey, 2002), La tragedia de Macario (Veliz, 2005), La misma luna/Under the Same Moon (Patricia Riggen, 2007) and 7 soles (Ultreras, 2008). The article argues that these texts form a new sub-genre of migration fi…
Striking Women: (Re) Writing 1984–5
Anti-Semitism and misrepresentations of survival guilt in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intacto
Intacto (2001) is a very accomplished film, by exciting new director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and is part of a new wave of commercial, internationalist Spanish cinema.1 It is a film based on an inte
Chilean and Transnational Performances of Disobedience: LasTesis and the Phenomenon of Un violador en tu camino
This article analyses the performance Un violador en tu camino created by Chilean feminist theatre collective LasTesis, shared by millions and re-staged across the globe. It explores the relationship between the original piece and theorist Rita Segato's insights on rape culture, and how it counters aspects of this culture. It examines how the transnational spread of Un violador counters tendencies of MeToo, and examines four cases of the performa…
Individuals, Groups, and Agenda Melding: A Theory of Social Dissonance
Journal Article INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND AGENDA MELDING: A THEORY OF SOCIAL DISSONANCE Get access Donald L. Shaw, Donald L. Shaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maxwell McCombs, Maxwell McCombs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David H. Weaver, David H. Weaver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bradley J. Hamm Bradley J. Hamm Sear…
Men in High Heels: The Feminine Man and Performances of Femininity in Tacones lejanos by Pedro Almodóvar
(2000). Men in High Heels: The Feminine Man and Performances of Femininity in Tacones lejanos by Pedro Almodovar. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 55-62
A tale of two feminisms: Gender critical feminism, trans inclusive feminism and the case of Kathleen Stock
In this article I write on the rift between trans inclusive and gender critical feminists in the UK. I consider this division within university culture through a focus on the case of Kathleen Stock. I discuss the coverage of her resignation from the University of Sussex through a focus on The Daily Telegraph. From a trans inclusive feminist viewpoint, I discuss the way her case has been used to spread misinformation around universities, and trans…
Serving the master text: Rethinking digital paratexts in the social issue film Who is Dayani Cristal
We live in an age of multiple digital platforms, where our entertainment, news, work, social life and social activism are conducted through our smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktop computers, and most probably a range of these simultaneously. This has significant consequences for our understanding of the primacy of certain texts over others, and has led to a dismantling of hierarchies relating to films and their paratexts. In this essay I foc…
European Co-production Funds and Latin American Cinema: Processes of Othering and Bourgeois Cinephilia in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada
Latin American women's filmmaking has an unprecedented international profile thanks to the films of the Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, and the Argentine directors Lucía Puenzo and Lucrecia Martel. What is frequently unacknowledged when discussing the work of these award-winning filmmakers is the fact that all of their films are co-productions with Europe, and that programmes such as Cinéfondation, a programme aligned with the Cannes film festiv…
Migrant identities in film: Migrations from Mexico and Central America to the United States
This article analyses filmic representations of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States, with a focus on Sin nombre (Fukunaga, 2009). Reference will also be made to other films including, The Gatekeeper (Juan Carlos Frey, 2002), La tragedia de Macario (Veliz, 2005), La misma luna/Under the Same Moon (Patricia Riggen, 2007) and 7 soles (Ultreras, 2008). The article argues that these texts form a new sub-genre of migration fi…
Erotic or political: Literary representations of Mexican lesbians
Como agua para chocolate: Some of the reasons for its success
(1994). Como agua para chocolate: Some of the reasons for its success. Travesia: Vol. 3, The Border Issue, pp. 82-92
Byron and Spain
Byron and Spain
Como agua para chocolate: Some of the reasons for its success
(1994). Como agua para chocolate: Some of the reasons for its success. Travesia: Vol. 3, The Border Issue, pp. 82-92
Erotic or political: Literary representations of Mexican lesbians
Individuals, Groups, and Agenda Melding: A Theory of Social Dissonance
Journal Article INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, AND AGENDA MELDING: A THEORY OF SOCIAL DISSONANCE Get access Donald L. Shaw, Donald L. Shaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Maxwell McCombs, Maxwell McCombs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David H. Weaver, David H. Weaver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bradley J. Hamm Bradley J. Hamm Sear…
The Literary Journalism of Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco
This article examines the writings of the Mexican literary journalists, Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco. It traces the political agendas of the writers through an analysis of their work in two collected volumes, Las niñas bien (Loaeza) and Sopita de fideo (Pacheco). The paper argues that while each author focuses on opposite ends of the social scale, each piece of writing contains an implicit or explicit attack on the Mexican ruling classes…
Home literacy activities and their influence on early literacy skills.
The relationship between the home environments of 66 children and their language and literacy development was examined. After accounting for child age, parent education, and child ability as indexed by scores on a rapid automatized naming task and Block Design of the WPPSI-R, shared book reading at home made no contribution to the prediction of the literacy skills of letter name and letter sound knowledge in kindergarten. In contrast, home activi…
Men in High Heels: The Feminine Man and Performances of Femininity in Tacones lejanos by Pedro Almodóvar
(2000). Men in High Heels: The Feminine Man and Performances of Femininity in Tacones lejanos by Pedro Almodovar. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 55-62
Heroes, Villains and Women: Representations of Latin America in The Voyage by Fernando Solanas
This article provides a close study of Solanas's most ambitious film, The Voyage (El viaje). It examines the director's attempts to create a model of Latin American cinema in opposition to Hollywood aesthetics. The paper discusses the extent to which Solanas is successful in this project, and examines the ways in which he has been faithful to his political views. In addition, the paper challenges the film's representations of women, arguing that …
Anti-Semitism and misrepresentations of survival guilt in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intacto
Intacto (2001) is a very accomplished film, by exciting new director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and is part of a new wave of commercial, internationalist Spanish cinema.1 It is a film based on an inte
Striking Women: (Re) Writing 1984–5
Migrant identities in film: Migrations from Mexico and Central America to the United States
This article analyses filmic representations of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States, with a focus on Sin nombre (Fukunaga, 2009). Reference will also be made to other films including, The Gatekeeper (Juan Carlos Frey, 2002), La tragedia de Macario (Veliz, 2005), La misma luna/Under the Same Moon (Patricia Riggen, 2007) and 7 soles (Ultreras, 2008). The article argues that these texts form a new sub-genre of migration fi…
The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro
Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the connections between his Spanish language and English langu
Fonds de financement européens et cinéma latino-américain: Altérisation et cinéphilie bourgeoise dans La teta asustada de Claudia Llosa
European Co-production Funds and Latin American Cinema: Processes of Othering and Bourgeois Cinephilia in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada
Latin American women's filmmaking has an unprecedented international profile thanks to the films of the Peruvian director Claudia Llosa, and the Argentine directors Lucía Puenzo and Lucrecia Martel. What is frequently unacknowledged when discussing the work of these award-winning filmmakers is the fact that all of their films are co-productions with Europe, and that programmes such as Cinéfondation, a programme aligned with the Cannes film festiv…
Generating an authorial presence with Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy II: The Golden Army follows on from Guillermo del Toro's first feature in a number of ways. In this film, del Toro develops his role as a director of monsters; he continues to cross genre and cultural boundaries, bringing elements from high art and art cinema into this commercial venture. In this chapter, the author engages in discourse analysis to see that the presented paratexts reveal about the new ways in which auteurism can be cultiv…
Alfonso Cuarón’s first films in Mexico and the USA
Alfonso Cuarón's filmmaking career has many parallels to that of Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu. All have made a first film in Mexico, before consolidating their careers in the USA. Cuarón's first film, Sólo con tu pareja (Love in the Time of Hysteria, 1991), was a national hit, but did not have the necessary ingredients or support to be a global success. Four years after making Sólo con tu pareja, Cuarón began his Hollywood c…
Babel and the global Hollywood gaze
Babel is one of the films of the Guillermo Arriaga/Alejandro González Iñárritu collaboration. Babel sets out to be a new sort of film, one that attempts to create a 'world cinema' gaze within a commercial Hollywood framework. This chapter examines how the team approaches this and asks whether the film succeeds in this attempt. It explores the tensions between progressive and conservative political agendas, and pay particular attention to the ways…
Grams: An American independent film made by Mexicans
The film, 21 Grams, is made by the core team of Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Rodrigo Prieto, and Brigitte Broch. The score for the film is provided by Gustavo Santoalalla and is taken by the critical community, both popular and academic, as an American independent film, with the Mexican identities of the central filmmakers glossed over. The complexities involved in ascribing national identity to a film such as 21 Grams point to…
Crashing into the international film market with Amores perros
From Amores perros, to 21 Grams, to Babel, to Biutiful (2010), Alejandro González Iñárritu and his team have travelled from Mexico, to the USA, to multinational landscapes, and to the immigrant world of Barcelona. This chapter considers Amores perros within the context of Iñárritu's trajectory as a filmmaker. It demonstrates the ways in which Amores perros establishes signature traits that will be developed in the subsequent films that he directs…
Children of Men: The limits of radicalism
Children of Men is Alfonso Cuarón's greatest filmic achievement to date and constitutes an auteurist statement in the way that it demands that its director be taken seriously. It addresses weighty issues and sets out to provide an account of the most pressing problems facing humanity: environmental destruction (symbolised by infertility), mass migration, and the tyranny within democratic states. Children of Men is an ideal model case study for a …
Cronos: Introducing Guillermo del Toro
Cronos is a film that has been given an afterlife with the subsequent global success of Guillermo del Toro. Cronos is an interesting film to explore, as it shows del Toro without big budgets. At the time, it was the most expensive Mexican film ever made, with a budget of $2 million, according to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB); however, that is clearly miniscule in comparison with Hollywood and European art cinema productions. Most of the lite…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Between them, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón have made films that have been taken as Mexican, mainstream Hollywood, US independent, British, and Spanish, while Iñárritu's Babel further complicates national classifications. Their films have caused critics to rethink other classificatory borders, such…
Dedication
El laberinto del fauno: Breaking through the barriers of filmmaking
For many, El laberinto del fauno marks the pinnacle of Guillermo del Toro's filmmaking career. It is a film that has allowed del Toro to realise his creative potential, unencumbered by the budgetary limitations of Cronos or the rules governing Hollywood-funded genre products. This chapter explores the ways in which a freedom to create a new form of cinema is manifested in El laberinto by examining how the film traverses borders and creates a new …
Filmography
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive empirical material drawn from a Swedish context. The questions raised and answered in this book include the following: How does the experience of being the protagonist in a media scandal affect a person's everyday …
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