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Tastemakers and tastemaking : Mexico and curated screen violence / Niamh Thornton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, Niamh, 1972- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
- SUNY series in Latin American cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Television--Aesthetics.
- Television.
- Motion pictures--Mexico--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York State : State University of New York Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Questions of taste: classification, value, legitimation, and Distinction
- Cultural institutions and taste formation: Nelson Carro and the Cineteca in 2010
- Commonplace and routine: Amat Escalante's extreme realism in Los bastardos (2008) and Heli (2013)
- Re-versioning and thick contexts: the cinematic adaptations of Los de abajo
- Bodily excess and containment: Bordertown (Gregory Nava, 2006) and The Virgin of Juarez (Kevin James Dobson, 2006)
- Curating cruelty and criminality: the radical mediation of Kate del Castillo
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438481142
- 1438481144
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