The classical Mexican cinema : the poetics of the exceptional Golden Age films /
Charles Ramírez Berg.
- First edition.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations.
- Texas film and media studies series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : retheorizing Mexican film history -- Every picture tells a story : José Guadalupe Posada's protocinematic graphic art -- Enrique Rosas's el automóvil gris (1919) and the dawning of modern Mexican cinema -- The adoption of the Hollywood style and the transition to sound -- Mexican cinema comes of age : Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s -- The cinematic invention of Mexico : the poetics and politics of the Fernández unit style -- Luis Buñuel in Mexico -- Three classical Mexican cinema genre films -- Conclusion : what happened to the classical Mexican cinema?.
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Motion pictures--History.--Mexico Motion pictures, Mexican--History and criticism. Motion picture industry--History.--Mexico