{"product_id":"the-classical-mexican-cinema-the-poetics-of-the-exceptional-golden-age-films-paperback-softback-9781477308059","title":"The Classical Mexican Cinema; The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477308059","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Classical Mexican Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCharles Ramírez Berg (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477308059, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Classical Mexican Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous book, so full of stills and frame blowups deftly illustrating Berg's narrative that it is an immersive experience…An invaluable resource for all students and lovers of cinema, this book would also make a superb course text.\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003eRamÍrez Berg explores the roots of the industry and explains how filmmakers of the time crafted a style that was distinctly Mexican.\u003c\/div\u003e (New York Times)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Classical Mexican Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express \u003ci\u003elo mexicano\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles 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’ \u003ci\u003eEl AutomÓvil Gris\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Introduction: Retheorizing Mexican Film History\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Every Picture Tells a Story: JosÉ\u003cbr\u003e Guadalupe Posada's Protocinematic Graphic Art\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Enrique Rosas's El automÓ\u003cbr\u003evil gris (1919) and the Dawning of Modern Mexican Cinema\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Adoption of the Hollywood Style and the Transition to Sound\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Mexican Cinema Comes of Age: Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Cinematic Invention of Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of the FernÁ\u003cbr\u003endez Unit Style\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Luis BuÑ\u003cbr\u003euel in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Three Classical Mexican Cinema Genre Films\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema?\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739549659416,"sku":"9781477308059","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-classical-mexican-cinema-the-poetics-of-the-exceptional-golden-age-films-paperback-softback-9781477308059","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}