Dolores Tierney

Emilio Fernández

Pictures in the margins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico's and Latin America's most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández' most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780719088445
• ISBN-10: 0719088445
• Artikelnr.: 36055363

Autorenporträt

Dolores Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Poor reception' and the popular in classical Mexican
cinema 2. 'El Indio' Fernández, Mexico's marginalized golden boy and
national auteur 3. Calendar María - hybridity, indigenismo and the
discourse of whitening 4. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Enamorada
5. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Salón México, Las abandonadas
and Víctimas del pecado 6. Progress, modernity and Fernández'
'anti-modernist utopia': Río Escondido Epilogue: Mexican Cinema and Emilio
Fernández post the Golden Age - From Golden Boy to 'the man in black'
Filmography