Classical Mexican Cinema - The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films

Informationen zum Autor By Charles Ramírez Berg Klappentext In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology. Zusammenfassung In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Retheorizing Mexican Film History Chapter 2. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada's Protocinematic Graphic Art Chapter 3. Enrique Rosas's El automóvil gris (1919) and the Dawning of Modern Mexican Cinema Chapter 4. The Adoption of the Hollywood Style and the Transition to Sound Chapter 5. Mexican Cinema Comes of Age: Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s Chapter 6. The Cinematic Invention of Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of the Fernández Unit Style Chapter 7. Luis Buñuel in Mexico Chapter 8. Three Classical Mexican Cinema Genre Films Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema? Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Charles Ram Berg, Charles Ramirez Berg, Charles Ramírez Berg
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781477308059
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-0805-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Texas Film and Media Studies Series; Texas Film and Media Studies; Texas Film and Media Studies Series; Texas Film and Media Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet