Dolores Tierney

Emilio Fernández (eBook, PDF)

Pictures in the margins

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Produktbeschreibung

Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most successful director of classical Mexican Cinema, famed with creating films that embody a loosely defined Mexican school of filmmaking. However, rather than offer an auteurist study this book interrogates the construction of Fernández as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. as macho mexicano and indio). It also challenges auteurist readings of the films themselves in order to make new arguments about the significance of Fernández and his work.
The aim of this book is to question Mexico's fetishisation of its own position on the peripheries of the global cultural economy and the similar fetishisation of Fernández's marginalisation as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director. This book argues that, as pictures in the margins, classical Mexican cinema and specifically Fernández's films are not transparent reflections of dominant post Revolutionary Mexican culture, but annotations and re-inscriptions of the particularities of Mexican society in the post-Revolutionary era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526141347
• Artikelnr.: 60364180

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