• Aesthetics and politics in the Mexican film industry
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Author: MacLairdMisha, 1973-
    Place of Publication: New York
    Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    Year of Publication: 2013
    Description: 1 online resource
    Series: Studies of the Americas
    Subject: Motion picture industry - History. - Mexico -
    Subject: Motion pictures - Social aspects - Mexico. -
    Subject: Motion pictures - Political aspects. -
    Subject: Politics in motion pictures. -
    Subject: ART / Film & Video -
    Subject: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference -
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137319340
    Notes: Description based on print version record
    Summary: Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from theearly 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audiencedemographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decadesand how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic politicalsystem and a free-market economy.
    ISBN: 9781137319340electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1137319348electronic bk.
    ISBN: 1299717659electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9781299717657electronic bk.
    Content Note: Una{EFBFBD} poca fatal: An Era of Fatality, Tragic Endings, and New Beginnings PART I: THE POLITICS OF TRANSITION 1. Industry and Policy: Privatizing a National Cinema 2. Audiences and Markets: On Spectatorship and Citizenship 3. Censorship and Sensationalism: Neotremendismo autoritario PART II: THE AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION 4. Hyperrealism and Violence: Fatal Aesthetics 5. Independence and Innovation: Indie Film and the Youth Market 6. Coproduction and Transnationalism: National Culture in a Global Marketplace 7. Between Tragedy and Farce: Mexico and Its Cinema Relive History.
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