Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to Fin De Siglo Mexamerica (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video & Suny Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) [Paperback]

Susan Dever (Author)

Book Description

Series: Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video & Suny Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory | Publication Date: July 5, 2003

Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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 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. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Susan Dever is Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (July 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791457648
• ISBN-13: 978-0791457641
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,880,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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