Narco Cinema - Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico''s B-Filmography

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Ryan Rashotte is an indepedent scholar based in Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Guelph, Canada. Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the US borderlands. Identifying classics in its mammoth catalogue and analyzing select films at length, Rashotte outlines the genre's history and aesthetic criteria. He approaches its history as an alternative to mainstream representation of the drug war and considers how its vernacular aesthetic speaks to the anxieties and desires of Latina/o audiences by celebrating regional cultures while exploring the dynamics of global transition. Despite recent federal prohibitions, narco cinema endures as a popular folk art because it reflects distinctively the experiences of those uprooted by the forces of globalization and critiques those forces in ways mainstream cinema has failed. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the US borderlands. Identifying classics in its mammoth catalogue and analyzing select films at length, Rashotte outlines the genre's history and aesthetic criteria. He approaches its history as an alternative to mainstream representation of the drug war and considers how its vernacular aesthetic speaks to the anxieties and desires of Latina/o audiences by celebrating regional cultures while exploring the dynamics of global transition. Despite recent federal prohibitions, narco cinema endures as a popular folk art because it reflects distinctively the experiences of those uprooted by the forces of globalization and critiques those forces in ways mainstream cinema has failed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Oye, Lecteur 1. What is Narco Cinema? 2. Hecho de coca: A Sentimental Education 3. Two Foul Score of the Brothers Almada 4. Narcas y Narcos 5. . . . and Narco Gays? Postscript: From Culiacán to Cannes...

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Introduction: Oye, Lecteur 1. What is Narco Cinema? 2. Hecho de coca: A Sentimental Education 3. Two Foul Score of the Brothers Almada 4. Narcas y Narcos 5. . . . and Narco Gays? Postscript: From Culiacán to Cannes

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• Authors: R. Rashotte, Ryan Rashotte
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9781137501479
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50147-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Latino Pop Culture; Latino Pop Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Genre, PostScript, Filmgenres, Amerika, Darstellende Künste, Sex, B, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, History, Music, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Story, Score, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, History of mathematics, Culture—Study and teaching, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film genres, Film: styles & genres, Genre Studies, American Cinema and TV, Motion pictures—United States, American Film and TV, Motion pictures, American, Latin American Film and TV, Latin American Cinema and TV, Film: styles and genres, Mammoth, History of Literature