03642nam 2200721Ia 450 991097220260332120200520144314.09780791486658079148665697814175360921417536098(CKB)1000000000447630(OCoLC)61367759(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594911(SSID)ssj0000119255(PQKBManifestationID)11871430(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119255(PQKBWorkID)10057337(PQKB)10925733(OCoLC)56722480(MdBmJHUP)muse6024(Au-PeEL)EBL3408570(CaPaEBR)ebr10594911(DE-B1597)684550(DE-B1597)9780791486658(MiAaPQ)EBC3408570(Perlego)2673044(EXLCZ)99100000000044763020020917d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCelluloid nationalism and other melodramas from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica /Susan Dever1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (274 p.) SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoSUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791457641 0791457648 9780791457634 079145763X Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index.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 -- IndexCelluloid 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.Motion picturesMexicoHistoryMelodrama in motion picturesMexican Americans in motion picturesMotion picturesHistory.Melodrama in motion pictures.Mexican Americans in motion pictures.791.43/0972Dever Susan1955-1806588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972202603321Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas4355853UNINA