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The classical Mexican cinema : the poetics of the exceptional Golden Age films /

From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejecte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berg, Charles Ramírez, 1947- (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Texas film and media studies series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: retheorizing Mexican film history
  • Every picture tells a story : José Guadalupe Posada's protocinematic graphic art
  • Enrique Rosas's el automóvil gris (1919) and the dawning of modern Mexican cinema
  • The adoption of the Hollywood style and the transition to sound
  • Mexican cinema comes of age : Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s
  • The cinematic invention of Mexico : the poetics and politics of the Fernández unit style
  • Luis Buñuel in Mexico
  • Three classical Mexican cinema genre films
  • Conclusion: what happened to the classical Mexican cinema?