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Animation in Mexico, 2006 To 2022 : Box Office, Web Shorts, and Streaming / edited by David S. Dalton.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dalton, David S., editor.
Series:
SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Animated films--Mexico--History and criticism.
Animated films.
Animation (Cinematography)--Mexico.
Animation (Cinematography).
Animators--Mexico.
Animators.
Motion picture industry--Mexico--History.
Motion picture industry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]
Summary:
Examines contemporary animation in Mexico--one of the most commercially successful and most understudied genres of the national cinema.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Animation in Mexico: A Brief History
Updating Mexican Animated Film Studies: The Fifth and Sixth Periods
Key Periods in Mexican Animation: The First through Fourth Periods
Periodization in Contemporary Animation (2006-2024)
Organization
Notes
Bibliography
Section I: The Fifth Period: Commercial Animated Cinema in the Domestic Market
Chapter 1: Huevocartoon: New Masculinities and the Poetics of Failure
Conflicting Masculinities in Una película de huevos
Otra película de huevos y un pollo: The Quest for Ethical Consumption in a Neoliberal Era
Finding a Voice: Un gallo con muchos huevos
Chapter 2: On Colonial and Decolonial Ghosting: La leyenda de la Nahuala
On Nahuala Street
Legend(s) behind the Legend …
Nahualismo and Hegemony
The Living and the Dead: Social Hierarchies and Otherness
Mayhem in the Master's House
Ghosts of Independence
Chapter 3: La revolución de Juan Escopeta: Toward Nonviolent Masculinity and Citizenship
La revolución de Juan Escopeta and the Legacy of the Golden Age
Coming of Age: Child Protagonists, Trauma, and Revolutionary Violence
Guns and Manhood: Overcoming Colonizing Masculine Discourse
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Es un pájaro, es un avión: The Twenty-First-Century Animated Mexican Superhero
Section II: The Sixth Period: On Streaming and the Internationalization of Mexican Animation
Chapter 5: Politicized Web Praxis in Mexican Animated Short Films: Reality 2.0 (2012) and Retrato Político (2013)
Web 2.0 and Cyberspace
Reality 2.0
Retrato Político
Animated Short Film and Web 2.0: Inside Perspectives
Bibliography.
Chapter 6: The Impact of Anime in Mexico-Centered Adult Animation and Global Mexican Representation
Anime in Japan
The Popularization of Anime across the Pacific and the Emergence of Borderless Online Otaku Communities
American Animation and Mexico-Inspired Stories
Mexican Representation in American "Anime"
Chapter 7: The Day of the Dead: Mexican Gothic and Animated Cinema
Death and the Family
Witchcraft and Haunted Castles
Filmography
Chapter 8: Border/lands of Belonging in Disney-Pixar's Coco
Cultural Hegemony, Commodified Inclusion, and Multicultural Representation
Borderlands (of imagination) in Coco // Securitizing Coco's border/lands
List of Contributors
Index.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
979-88-558-0177-4
OCLC:
1511110228

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