Bored to Distraction

Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain

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de Claudia Schaefer

Type

Essays

Sujet

Countries > Mexico

Mots Clés

Mexico, Spain

Année d'édition

2003

Editeur

State University of New York Press

Collection

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 211 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-7914-5888-1
978-0-7914-5888-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.

Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise of material goods to the profusion of despair, from devastating tragedy to exaggerated rapture, a dizzying array of images assaults the eye. Drawing on recent films from Mexico and Spain, Bored to Distraction navigates this visual terrain, from melodrama to horror, looking for what, if anything, might be excessive enough to rouse us from our comfortable everyday routines.

À propos de l'auteur :
Claudia Schaefer is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and the author of Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture and Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico.

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