Celluloid nationalism and other melodramas
Subtitle: from post-revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamérica
By: Susan Dever.
Series: The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video; SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Mexico -- History.; Melodrama in motion pictures.; Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Description: "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 Fernandez, Matilde Landeta, Allison Anders, and Marcela Fernandez 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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250)  and index.