Emilio Fernandez
Subtitle: Pictures in the Margins (Spanish and Latin American Film)
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780719074325
Subjects: Individual film directors, film-makers; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Description: "Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernandez (1904-86), the most successful director of classical Mexican cinema, famed with creating films that defined a Mexican school of filmmaking. Rather than offering a classic auteur study this book interrogates the construction of Fernandez as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. Fernandez as macho mexicano and indio). It also challenges auteurist readings of his films in order to construct new arguments about the significance of Fernandez and his work." "The aim of this book is to question Mexican criticism's fetishization of its own position on the peripheries of the global cultural economy and the similar fetishization of Fernandez' marginalization as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director. This book argues that, as pictures in the margins, classical Mexican cinema and specifically Fernandez' films are not transparent reflections of dominant post-Revolutionary Mexican culture but annotations and re-inscriptions of the particularities of Mexican society in the post-Revolutionary era."--Jacket.