Performing the border / a film by Ursula Biemann.

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"Set in Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble equipment across the border from El Paso, Texas, this imaginative work investigates the growing impact of the global economy on Mexican women who live and work in the area. The video explores the sexualization of the border throug...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Women Make Movies (Firm)
Other Authors: Biemann, Ursula, 1955-
Language:English
Spanish
Language of the Original:
Spanish
Language and/or Writing System:
In English and Spanish, with English subtitles.
Published: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, [1999], ©1999.
Subjects:
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Women > Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.
Women > Employment > Mexican-American Border Region.
Urbanization > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Mexican-American Border Region > Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Urbanization.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Employment.
Women > Social conditions.
Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Documentaries and factual films and videos.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction films.
Genre:
Documentaries and factual films and videos.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
Nonfiction films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (42 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"Set in Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble equipment across the border from El Paso, Texas, this imaginative work investigates the growing impact of the global economy on Mexican women who live and work in the area. The video explores the sexualization of the border through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Interviews with factory and sex workers, activists and journalists combined with voiceover analysis, screen text, onsite scenes and found footage give new insights into gendered conditions inscribed by the high tech industry at its low-wage end"--Container.
Note:This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Title from container.
Videorecording.
Call Number:HN120.C48 P47 1999 VideoDVD
System Details:DVD-R.