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. 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.
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.
Latin American Melodrama
Latin American 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 Latin American Melodrama write by Darlene J. Sadlier. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Latin American Melodrama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like their Hollywood counterparts, Latin American film and TV melodramas have always been popular and highly profitable. The first of its kind, this anthology engages in a serious study of the aesthetics and cultural implications of Latin American melodramas. Written by some of the major figures in Latin American film scholarship, the studies range across seventy years of movies and television within a transnational context, focusing specifically on the period known as the "Golden Age" of melodrama, the impact of classic melodrama on later forms, and more contemporary forms of melodrama. An introductory essay examines current critical and theoretical debates on melodrama and places the essays within the context of Latin American film and media scholarship. Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L. Benamou, Marvin D’Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson, Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail Xavier.
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 2003-07-17. Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.
Buñuel and Mexico
Buñuel and Mexico - 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 Buñuel and Mexico write by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz. This book was released on 2003-11-13. Buñuel and Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.
