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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mexican cinema"”.
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He Who Rules "Cinema" Rules Everything: Kalimán as Bridge Between 1960s and 1970s Mexican Cinema
<p>Kalimán is a Mexican superhero whose adventures, along with his sidekick Solín, take them around the world and across various media platforms: radio, comics, and cinema. The cinematic tales of Kalimán reflect significant changes in Mexican cinema, society, and culture. The two Kalimán films, El …
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The Representation of Mexican Identity through Music in the Films of Emilio ‘Indio’ Fernández (1940-1950)
… a prominent film director of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (1936-1956). Central to his work was the representation of the Mexican national identity, which was expressed through the narrative and visual elements of his films. Music was also central in Emilio Fernández’s work, but the …
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¡Subestándar!: Sub-standard small gauge cinema between Mexico and U.S.A. (1923-1960)
… and in the shadow of the mighty Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, which was the darling of global Spanish speaking audiences during this period. Mexico is a country that is the next-door neighbor to arguably the biggest originator of new technologies in the last century—the United States—and a …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other dispossessed peoples from both colonial and post-colonial Mexico in order to gain some insights into the vision of the powerless, (the …
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Michel Franco: Auteur of Violence
… with a conceptualization of modern (mostly Mexican) society through an exploration of violence and trauma as they affect the individual on both personal and public levels. Using the filmic auteur theory as my basis for an exploration of his body of work, I examine his use of spatial theory, …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
It is difficult to overstate the importance of Juan Rulfo’s two major pieces of fictional narrative work—his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and his unrelenting depictions of the failures of post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection El Llano en llamas (1953). In her …