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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563096503321

Autore

García Blizzard Mónica

Titolo

The white indians of Mexican cinema : racial masquerade throughout the golden age / / Mónica García Blizzard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781438488059

9781438488035

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American cinema

Disciplina

791.43652997072

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Mexico

Motion pictures - Mexico - History and criticism

Ethnicity in motion pictures

White people in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Idealized pre-Colombian womanhood -- Taming the Tehuana -- Revolutionary politics, colonized aesthetics -- Reframing Mestizaje: white, Myans, Indigenous spirituality, and Cenote suicides -- María Isabel: a white Indita for modern Mexico -- Indios, desire, and the white Mexican woman.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico"--