School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

BA (Portsmouth)

MA (Leeds)

PhD (King’s College London)

 

My principal areas of research have fallen into three areas: Latin American women’s writing, contemporary Latin American film and representations of Latinos and Latin Americans in Hollywood film. More recently my focus has been on the latter two subject areas, and I am currently working on a monograph on contemporary Mexican filmmakers. I am in the process of putting a bid together for the Research Networks and Workshops Scheme. The theme for the networks and workshops is the interrogation of the concept of national/transnational cinema, and I am a founding co-editor of the journal Transnational Cinemas.

I am course leader for the MA in Film and Television Studies, and coordinate Representing Otherness in Film and Television for this programme. I coordinate a number of other units on the Film Studies degree, including Cinema and Nation, Gender, Sexuality and Cinema, and Cinema and Memory.

Current Research

Books^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (In preparation). Contemporary Transnational Mexican Filmmakers. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (Forthcoming), Deconstructing and reconstructing ‘transnational cinema’. In S. Dennison (Ed.), Interrogating the Transnational in Hispanic Film (pp. 00-00). London: Tamesis.

Shaw, D. (Forthcoming). Re-making Frida Kahlo through Music in Frida. In L. Shaw & R. Stone (Eds.), Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (pp. 00-00). Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Publications

Publications since 2008 [IR]

Books^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (2003). Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: Ten Key Films. London and New York: Continuum Publishers. ISBN 978-0826414854.

Edited Books^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (Ed.). (2007) Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742539150.

Journal Articles^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (2007). Robert Rodriguez’s Mexicans in Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7(3). [Link this to http://reconstruction.eserver.org/073/shaw.shtml]

Shaw, D. (2007). Blow: how a film created a hero from a top-level drug trafficker and blamed the 'Colombians' for his downfall. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24 (1), 31-40.

Shaw, D. (2005). ‘You are alright but…’: individual and collective representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Traffic. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22(3), 211-224. Reprinted in J. Codell (Ed.), Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema:  An Anthology (pp. 342-358). Chichester/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Shaw, D. (2005). Anti-Semitism and misrepresentations of survival guilt in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intacto. The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 8(5), 671-683.

Shaw, D. (2004). The figure of the absent father in recent Latin American films. Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 1(2), 85-102.

Shaw, D. (2002). Heroes, villains and women: representations of Latin America in The Voyage by Fernando Solanas. The Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21(4), 473-489.

Shaw, D. (2001). Men in high heels: the feminine man and performances of femininity in Tacones Iejanos by Pedro Almodóvar. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 6(1), 55-62.

Shaw, D. (1999). Las posibilidades de la escritura feminine: la insólita historia de la Santa de Cabora de Brianda Domecq. Literature Mexicana, 10(1-2), 281-312.

Shaw, D. (1999). The literary journalism of Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco. The Bulletin of Latin American Research, 18(4), 437-450.

Shaw, D. (1996). Jesusa Palancares as individual subject in Elena Poniatowska’s Hasta no verte Jesús mio. The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,73 (Liverpool, April), 191-204.

Shaw, D. (1996). Erotic or political: literary representations of Mexican lesbians. Travesía: The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 5(1), 51-63.

Shaw, D. (1995). Gender and class relations in Elena Poniatowska’s De noche vienes. The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,72 (Liverpool, January), 111-121.

Shaw, D. & Rollet, B. (1994). Como agua para chocolate: some reasons for its success. Travesía: The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 3(1.2), 82-92.

Chapters in Edited Books^{[Back to top]}

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Shaw, D. (2007). Playing Hollywood at its own game? Bielinski’s Nine Queens (2007). In D. Shaw (Ed.), Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market (pp. 67-85). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Shaw, D. (2007). Latin American cinema today: a qualified success story. In D. Shaw (Ed.), Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Breaking into the Global Market (pp. 1-10). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Shaw, D. (1997). Problems of definition in the theorizing of Latin American women’s writing. In E. Dore (Ed.), Gender Politics in Latin America: debates in theory and practice (pp. 161-174). New York: Monthly Review Press.

Shaw, D. (1995). The Mexican woman writer: a critical intervention? In K. Duncan & E. Karadis (Eds.), Beyond solitude: dialogues between Europe and Latin America (pp. 111-135). University of Birmingham: Birmingham Modern Languages Publications.

Membership of Editorial Boards^{[Back to top]}

Founding Editor (with Armida de la Garza, Ruth Doughty and Claudia Magallanes) of Transnational Cinemas journal (ISSN 2040-3526).

Member of the Editorial and Advisory Board for Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (ISSN 1478-0488).

Esteem Indicators^{[Back to top]}

‘An Interview with Deborah Shaw’ in Ba, Saer and Higbee, Will (eds.) De-westernizing Film Studies. Routledge: 2012.