The Lost Cinema of Mexico : From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros /

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This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mex...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Price, Brian L., 1975- (Editor), Cosentino, Olivia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture industry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Mexico.
Motion pictures > Mexico > History.
Motion picture industry > Mexico > History.
Mexico.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: El Santo versus the Cineteca Nacional de Mexico / Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price
  • I Know It's Only Rock and Roll, But I Like It: Popular Music and the Advent of the Churro / Brian Price
  • On Virgins, Malinches, and "Chicas Modernas": The Star Power of Lorena Velázquez in Lucha Libre Cinema / David S. Dalton
  • The Mexican Superochero Moment: Countercultural Nations and Utopian Assemblages in Small Format / Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
  • The Mexican Chili Western and Crisis Masculinity / Christopher Conway
  • Blackness and Racial Melodrama in 1970s Mexican Cinema / Carolyn Fornoff
  • Un cine familiar: Recovering the 1980s Mexican Family Film / Olivia Cosentino
  • Felipe Cazals: The Question of the Film Auteur in the Age of Cinematic Crisis / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
  • Finding the Lost Cinema of Mexico: Critical Recovery, Rescue, and Reconceptualization / Dolores Tierney.

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