Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Radio and Television

Publication Details

AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies

Summer 2023

Abstract

The 2000s was a breaking point for female Jewish representation in Latin American cinema. Previously represented in stereotypical roles, Jewish women morphed into more rounded characters in the first decade of the 21st century, showing that they had become part and parcel of the social fabric in Latin America. Films such as the Brazilian Olga (Jaime Monjardim, 2004), the Chilean-Mexican El brindis (Shai Agosin, 2007) and the Argentine La cámara oscura/Camera Obscura (María Victoria Menis, 2008), which explore Jewish Latin American culture and identity, testify to the normalization of female Jewish characters. In these films, Jewish Latin American women would share the same concerns as their non-Jewish counterparts in a fast changing world. But if that decade was marked by a shift towards normalization, the 2020s broke new ground by focusing on the Orthodox Jewish woman, a character that had received scarce attention in Latin American visual representation until then. This article will hinge mainly on the Argentine series El fin del amor/The End of Love (Erika Halvorsen and Tamara Tenembaum, 2022)–the first of its kind featuring a Latin American Orthodox Jewish woman in the lead–to shed light on how Orthodox women carve their female subjectivity, transgress gender and cultural boundaries and break away with previous generations.

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