The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films by Berg, Charles Ramírez

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

From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and...
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The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films by Berg, Charles Ramírez

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

€66,28

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

€66,28
Author: Charles Ramírez Berg
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood's paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho sought to create a unique national cinema that, through the stories it told and the ways it told them, was wholly Mexican. The Classical Mexican Cinema traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express lo mexicano.

Charles Ramírez Berg begins by locating the classical style's pre-cinematic roots in the work of popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada at the turn of the twentieth century. He also looks at the dawning of Mexican classicism in the poetics of Enrique Rosas' El Automóvil Gris, the crowning achievement of Mexico's silent filmmaking era and the film that set the stage for the Golden Age films. Berg then analyzes mature examples of classical Mexican filmmaking by the predominant Golden Age auteurs of three successive decades. Drawing on neoformalism and neoauteurism within a cultural studies framework, he brilliantly reveals how the poetics of Classical Mexican Cinema deviated from the formal norms of the Golden Age to express a uniquely Mexican sensibility thematically, stylistically, and ideologically.



Author: Charles Ramírez Berg
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781477308059


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 84
Choice 01/01/2016

About the Author
CHARLES RAMÍREZ BERGAustin, TexasBerg is Joe M. Dealy, Sr. Professor in Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has won every major teaching award. He is the author of several books, including Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance and Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983.


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