Cinema of Solitude - 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 Cinema of Solitude write by Charles Ramírez Berg. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Cinema of Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones. These are the films explored by Charles Ramírez Berg in Cinema of Solitude, the first book-length critical study of Mexican cinema in English. Berg discusses the major films and filmmakers of el Nuevo Cine in depth. He analyzes dozens of commercial movies, from popular comedies and adventures to award-winning films. Introductory chapters address the issue of mexicanidad (Mexican national identity) and outline Mexican history, the history of film as popular culture and as a leading national industry, and the ideological dynamics of Mexican cinema. In thematically arranged chapters, Berg investigates the images of women, men, and social structures portrayed in New Cinema films. He finds that women characters have begun to reject traditional stereotypes for more positive images, while male characters have grown ambiguous and undefined as machismo is abandoned. Other chapters trace the continuing marginalization of Indians in Mexican culture, the changes in male dominance within the family, and the disruptive social and economic effects caused by migration. For everyone interested in Mexican culture as reflected in its major cinematic productions, as well as students of film theory and national cinemas, this book will be important reading.
A Cinema of Loneliness
A Cinema of Loneliness - 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 A Cinema of Loneliness write by Robert Kolker. This book was released on 2011-07-07. A Cinema of Loneliness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, Kolker reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, as he examines works like Munich, A Prairie Home Companion, The Departed, and Funny People, in addition to classics by Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert Altman.
The Cinema of Solitude
The Cinema of Solitude - 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 The Cinema of Solitude write by Charles Eldon Berg. This book was released on 1987. The Cinema of Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The cinema of solitude
The cinema of solitude - 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 The cinema of solitude write by Charles Eldon Berg. This book was released on 1987. The cinema of solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Classical Mexican Cinema - 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 The Classical Mexican Cinema write by Charles Ramírez Berg. This book was released on 2015-09-01. The Classical Mexican Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood’s paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho sought to create a unique national cinema that, through the stories it told and the ways it told them, was wholly Mexican. The Classical Mexican Cinema traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express lo mexicano. Charles Ramírez Berg begins by locating the classical style’s pre-cinematic roots in the work of popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada at the turn of the twentieth century. He also looks at the dawning of Mexican classicism in the poetics of Enrique Rosas’ El Automóvil Gris, the crowning achievement of Mexico’s silent filmmaking era and the film that set the stage for the Golden Age films. Berg then analyzes mature examples of classical Mexican filmmaking by the predominant Golden Age auteurs of three successive decades. Drawing on neoformalism and neoauteurism within a cultural studies framework, he brilliantly reveals how the poetics of Classical Mexican Cinema deviated from the formal norms of the Golden Age to express a uniquely Mexican sensibility thematically, stylistically, and ideologically.
