Introduction: El Santo versus the Cineteca Nacional de México / Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price -- I Know It's Only Rock and Roll, But I Like It: Popular Music and the Advent of the Churro / Brian Price -- On Virgins, Malinches, and "Chicas Modernas": The Star Power of Lorena Velázquez in Lucha Libre Cinema / David S. Dalton -- The Mexican Superochero Moment: Countercultural Nations and Utopian Assemblages in Small Format / Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou -- The Mexican Chili Western and Crisis Masculinity / Christopher Conway -- Blackness and Racial Melodrama in 1970s Mexican Cinema / Carolyn Fornoff -- Un cine familiar: Recovering the 1980s Mexican Family Film / Olivia Cosentino -- Felipe Cazals: The Question of the Film Auteur in the Age of Cinematic Crisis / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado -- Finding the Lost Cinema of Mexico: Critical Recovery, Rescue, and Reconceptualization / Dolores Tierney.
Summary:
"This volume challenges the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the nation's earlier Golden Age, examining the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films"-- Provided by publisher. This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico's modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and chili westerns.Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic "crisis," this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
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