Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas write by Susan Dever. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas
Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas write by Susan Dever. This book was released on 1997. Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
iMex Revista (2)
iMex Revista (2) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook iMex Revista (2) write by Thea Pitman. This book was released on . iMex Revista (2) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Keine Angaben
Post-Westerns
Post-Westerns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Westerns write by Neil Campbell. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Post-Westerns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.
Mexican Melodrama
Mexican Melodrama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Melodrama write by Elena Lahr-Vivaz. This book was released on 2016-10-18. Mexican Melodrama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Mexican Melodrama, Elena Lahr-Vivaz explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce the excesses of a nation characterized as a fragmented and fictitious construct. Analyzing big hits and quiet successes of both Golden Age and new-wave cinema, the author offers in each chapter a comparative reading of films from the two eras, considering, for instance, Amores perros (Love’s a Bitch, Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000) alongside Nosotros los pobres (We the Poor, Ismael Rodríguez, 1947). Through such readings, Lahr-Vivaz examines how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present. Mexico’s Golden Age of film—the period from the 1930s to the 1950s—is considered “golden” due to both the prestige of the era’s stars and the critical and popular success of the films released. Golden Age directors often turned to the tropes of melodrama and allegory to offer spectators an image of an idealized Mexico and to spur the formation of a spectatorship united through shared tears and laughter. In contrast, Lahr-Vivaz demonstrates that new-wave directors of the 1990s and 2000s use the melodramatic mode to present a vision of fragmentation and to open a space for critical resistance. In so doing, new-wave directors highlight the limitations rather than the possibilities of a unified spectatorship, and point to the need for spectators to assume a critical stance in the face of the exigencies of the present. Written in an accessible style, Mexican Melodrama offers a timely comparative analysis of critically acclaimed films that will serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema for years to come.
