The classical Mexican cinema
Subtitle: the poetics of the exceptional Golden Age films
By: Charles Ramírez Berg
Edition: First edition.
Series: Texas film and media studies series; Texas film and media studies series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781477302514; 9781477308059
Subjects: Motion pictures; Mexican Motion pictures; History and criticism; Historia; Filmbranschen; Mexiko Filmindustrin; Filmer; Motion picture industry; History; Film; Mexiko
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Retheorizing Mexican film history; title: Every picture tells a story : José Guadalupe Posada's protocinematic graphic art; title: Enrique Rosas's El automóvil gris (1919) and the dawning of modern Mexican cinema; title: The adoption of the Hollywood style and the transition to sound; title: Mexican cinema comes of age : Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s; title: The cinematic invention of Mexico : the poetics and politics of the Fernández unit style; title: Luis Buñuel in Mexico; title: Three classical Mexican cinema genre films; title: Conclusion : What happened to the classical Mexican cinema?.