Revisiting El Viento del Ayahuasca (1983)
Gender representation in a pioneer female director’s film about the Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12690257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katia Yoza Mitsuishi (0000-0003-0897-4961, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 557-570 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-0777 • E-ISSN: 1471-5902 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14680777.2021.1984275 |
| OpenAlex | W3203392503 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 12 |
El Viento del Ayahuasca (1983) is a film by Nora de Izcue (born 1934), considered the first woman director of Peruvian cinema. Despite her importance and the implications of this film for gender and Amazonian studies, the film has received little attention. Thus, revisiting this film provides refreshing insights to understand the prevailing unconscious patriarchal thinking of a pioneering female director in Peru, as her perspective is closer to the male colonizer’s than to the Amazonian woman’s. Although there are moments in the film that show female agency through an “oppositional gaze,” the narrator’s voice and representation of the white, male, urban, and educated character affirms the notions of patriarchy and colonizer superiority. This film introduces a new type of masculine colonizer, the “failed but hopeful ethnographer.” His lack of success to help the feminine, mixed-race, Amazonian, and poor character does not mean that the film dismantles historical representations of the Amazon as an idealized space for the foreigner. The failure of the male character, in fact, entitles him to a legitimate authority as the experienced ethnographer who can speak about the Amazon at the cost of the female protagonist disappearance somewhere in the rainforest
Amazon rainforest · Art · Ayahuasca · Humanities · Sociology · Anthropology · Cinema History and Criticism · Literary and Cultural Studies · Photographic and Visual Arts · Psychology
Nora de Izcue, Josefina Jordán e o começo de uma história das diretoras do Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
The Skin of the Film
Foundational Fictions
Silence, Feminism, Power
Washed in Blood
Works and lives
As protagonistas femininas nos filmes da cineasta peruana Nora de Izcue
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
| Highly cited | No |
|---|