Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas : from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica / Susan Dever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dever, Susan, 1955-

Series:

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Mexico--History.

Motion pictures.

Melodrama in motion pictures.

Mexican Americans in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Re-Birth of a Nation: On Mexican Movies, Museums, and María Félix

Las de abajo: Matilde Landeta’s Mexican Revolution

Pimps, Prostitutes, and Politicos: Matilde Landeta’s Trotacalles and the Regime of Miguel Alemán

Fin de Siglo Mexamérica

Neomelodrama as Participatory Ethnography: Allison Anders’s Mi vida loca

The Last Judgment: Marcela Fernández Violante’s Requiem (for) Melodrama

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486658

0791486656

9781417536092

1417536098

OCLC:

61367759