The Classical Mexican Cinema : : The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films / / Charles Ramírez Berg.

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 rejecte...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Texas Film and Media Studies Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Retheorizing Mexican Film History
  • Chapter 2. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada’s Protocinematic Graphic Art
  • Chapter 3. Enrique Rosas’s El automóvil gris (1919) and the Dawning of Modern Mexican Cinema
  • Chapter 4. The Adoption of the Hollywood Style and the Transition to Sound
  • Chapter 5. Mexican Cinema Comes of Age: Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s
  • Chapter 6. The Cinematic Invention of Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of the Fernández Unit Style
  • Chapter 7. Luis Buñuel in Mexico
  • Chapter 8. Three Classical Mexican Cinema Genre Films
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema?
  • Notes
  • Index