Susan Dever

Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas (eBook, PDF)

From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Fernández, Matilde Landeta, Allison Anders, and Marcela Fernández 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780791486658
• Artikelnr.: 60500790

Autorenporträt

Susan Dever is Associate Professor and Chair of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico.