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- Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
summary
Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas looks at representation and rebellion in times of national uncertainty. Moving from mid-century Mexican cinema to recent films staged in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Susan Dever analyzes melodrama’s double function as a genre and as a sensibility, revealing coincidences between movie morals and political pieties in the civic-minded films of Emilio Fernández, Matilde Landeta, Allison Anders, and Marcela Fernández Violante. These filmmakers’ rationally and emotionally engaged cinema—offering representations of indigenous peoples and poor urban women who alternately endorsed “civilizing” projects and voiced resistance to such totalization—both interrupts and sustains fictions of national coherence in an increasingly transnational world.
Table of Contents
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- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- pp. ix-xii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xiii-xv
- PART I: Post-Revolutionary Mexico
- PART II: Fin de Siglo Mexam
- EPILOGUE: Deeds that Inspire Confidence
- pp. 195-196
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 233-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486658
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56722480
Pages
273
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No