Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas [[electronic resource] ] : from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica / / Susan Dever
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Dever Susan <1955->
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Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas [[electronic resource] ] : from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica / / Susan Dever
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/0972 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Mexico - History |
| Melodrama in motion pictures | |
| Mexican Americans in motion pictures | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8665-6 |
| 1-4175-3609-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821029403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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