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Dever Susan <1955-> |
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Titolo |
Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas : from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica / / Susan Dever |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
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9780791486658 |
0791486656 |
9781417536092 |
1417536098 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video |
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Mexico - History |
Melodrama in motion pictures |
Mexican Americans in motion pictures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Post-Revolutionary Mexico -- Re-Birth of a Nation: On Mexican Movies, Museums, and María Félix -- Las de abajo: Matilde Landeta’s Mexican Revolution -- Pimps, Prostitutes, and Politicos: Matilde Landeta’s Trotacalles and the Regime of Miguel Alemán -- Fin de Siglo Mexamérica -- Neomelodrama as Participatory Ethnography: Allison Anders’s Mi vida loca -- The Last Judgment: Marcela Fernández Violante’s Requiem (for) Melodrama -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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