Smith Mexican Screen Fiction

Between Cinema and Television
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8173-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the internationalsuccesses of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también. Mexicanfilms now display a wider range than any comparable country, fromart films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationallyrenowned directors like Alfonso Cuarón, AlejandroGonzález Iñárritu, and Guillermo del Toro. At thesame time, television has broadened its output, moving beyondtelenovelas to produce higher-value series and mini-series. MexicanTV now stakes a claim to being the most dynamic and pervasivenational narrative.
This new book by Paul Julian Smith is the first to examine theflourishing of audiovisual fiction in Mexico since 2000,considering cinema and TV together. It covers much materialpreviously unexplored and engages with emerging themes, includingviolence, youth culture, and film festivals. The book includesreviews of ten films released between 2001 and 2012 by directorswho are both established (Maryse Sistach, Carlos Reygadas) and new(Jorge Michel Grau, Michael Rowe, Paula Markovitch). There is alsoan appendix that includes interviews carried out by the author in2012 with five audiovisual professionals: a feature director, afestival director, an exhibitor, a producer, and a TVscreenwriter.
Mexican Screen Fiction will be an invaluable resource forstudents and scholars and essential reading for anyone interestedin one of the most vibrant audiovisual industries in the worldtoday.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Paul Julian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures vii
Preface viii
Introduction: Mexican Screen Fiction 1
Jump Cut 1: Y tu mamá también 7
PART I SETTING SCENES 13
1 Revising Mexican Cinema 15
2 Following Festivals 30
Jump Cut 2: Perfume de violetas, Frida 47
PART II AUTEURS AND GENRES 53
3 A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism:Julián Hernández's A Thousand Clouds ofPeace Encircle the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End55
4 A Case Study in Genre and Nationality: Guillermo delToro's Pan's Labyrinth 64
Jump Cut 3: 21 Grams, Battle in Heaven, KM 31 78
PART III MARGINAL SUBJECTS 87
5 Youth Culture in Mexico: Rebel, I'm Gonna Explode89
6 Lady Killers in TV Fiction: Women Murderers, The AparicioWomen 120
Jump Cut 4: We Are What We Are, Leap Year 152
PART IV TALES OF INSECURITY 159
7 Film Fictions of Violence: Hell, Saving Private
Pérez, Miss Bala 161
8 TV Histories of Violence: In the Sewers, Cries of Death andFreedom 191
Jump Cut 5: The Prize, Windows to the Sea 220
Conclusion: Between Cinema and Television 224
Appendix: Interviews with Five Media Professionals
(Jesús Mario Lozano, Daniela Michel, Alejandro Ramírez,Roberto Fiesco, Leticia López Margalli) 227
Bibliography 256
Index 266

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Julian Smith is Distinguished Professor in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Program at the Graduate Center in City University of New York.