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Bajo la metralla
Black melodramas
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Chili Western
cine familiar
Cineteca Nacional
commercial cinema
Cooperativa de Cine Marginal
Countercultural film
Crisi
David Celestinos
Eduardo Carrasco Zanini
El Santo
El tunco Maclovio
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Exploitation Cinema
Felipe Cazals
film historiography
Galindos
Golden Age cinema
historiographic revisionism
industry studies
Jose Agustin
La mula de Cullen Baker
Las viboras cambian de piel
Lorena Velazquez
Los motivos de Luz
lost cinema
luchadora cinema
Margarita Lopez Portillo
Masculinity
Mexican Cinema
Mexican Film History
Mexican national identity
Racismo
Rafael Montero
Rigo es amor
rock and roll films
Sergio Garcia Michel
Super 8 mm
Westerns

Product details

  • ISBN 9781683402534
  • Weight: 333g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation's earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.

This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico's modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and chili westerns.

Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic "crisis," this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large.
About
Olivia Cosentino is instructor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina.

Brian Price is professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss and the editor of Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana.