Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry [electronic resource] /
MacLaird, M.author.
Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy.
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""Chapter 2 Audiences and Target Markets: On Spectatorship and Citizenship                                                                               """"Chapter 3 Censorship and Sensationalism: â€œ el neotremendismo autoritario â€?                                                                                 ""; ""Part II The Aesthetics of Transition                                           ""; ""Chapter 4 Hyperrealism and Violence: Fatal Aesthetics                                                            ""
""Chapter 5 Independence and Innovation: Indie Film and the Youth Market                                                                             """"Chapter 6 Coproduction and Transnationalism: National Cinema in a Global Market                                                                                      ""; ""Conclusion Between Tragedy and Farce: Mexico and Its Cinema Relive History                                                                                 ""; ""List of Acronyms                       ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy.
Motion pictures and television.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Arts.
Aesthetics.
Political science.
Screen Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Arts.
Aesthetics.
Political Science and International Relations, general.