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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. CELLULOID NATIONALISM AND OTHER MELODRAMAS
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. pp. xiii-xv
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  1. PROLOGUE
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. INTRODUCTION: Of Melodrama and Other Inspirations
  2. pp. 5-44
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  1. PART I: Post-Revolutionary Mexico
  1. 1. Re-Birth of a Nation: On Mexican Movies, Museums, and Mar
  2. pp. 47-70
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  1. 2. Las de abajo: Matilde Landeta’s Mexican Revolution
  2. pp. 71-94
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  1. 3. Pimps, Prostitutes, and Politicos: Matilde Landeta’s Trotacalles and the Regime of Miguel Alemán
  2. pp. 95-122
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  1. PART II: Fin de Siglo Mexam
  1. 4. Neomelodrama as Participatory Ethnography: Allison Anders’s Mi vida loca
  2. pp. 125-166
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  1. 5. The Last Judgment: Marcela Fernández Violante’s Requiem (for) Melodrama
  2. pp. 167-194
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  1. EPILOGUE: Deeds that Inspire Confidence
  2. pp. 195-196
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  1. NOTES
  2. pp. 197-232
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  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  2. pp. 233-250
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  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 251-257
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