The Cinema of Maria Novaro

Writer-director María Novaro emerged during the 1990s as a major figure in the rebirth of Mexican cinema. Beginning with Lola (1989) and Danzón (1991), she created a series of complex women protagonists struggling with issues of identity, family, and empowerment.

In this first book-length English language examination of her career, film historian James Stratton reveals the thematic and stylistic consistencies that link the individual films, each of which is given ...