Mexican Melodrama Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave / Elena Lahr-Vivaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahr-Vivaz, Elena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Mexico--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures, Mexican--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, Mexican.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Melodrama and Mexico

2. Taming Nosotros

3. The Ties That Bind

4. Nosotros No More

5. Seeing Stars

6. Re-sounding Melos

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3454-3

OCLC:

957138213