Emilio Fernandez

Pictures in the Margins

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de Dolores Tierney

Type

Studies

Sujet

Director > Emilio Fernandez

Mots Clés

Emilio Fernandez, Mexico

Année d'édition

2008

Editeur

Manchester University Press

Collection

Spanish and Latin American filmmakers

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 208 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7190-8844-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most successful director of classical Mexican Cinema, famed with creating films that embody a loosely defined Mexican school of filmmaking. However, rather than offer an auteurist study this book interrogates the construction of Fernández as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. as macho mexicano and indio). It also challenges auteurist readings of the films themselves in order to make new arguments about the significance of Fernández and his work.

The aim of this book is to question Mexico's fetishisation of its own position on the peripheries of the global cultural economy and the similar fetishisation of Fernández's marginalisation as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director. This book argues that, as pictures in the margins, classical Mexican cinema and specifically Fernández's films are not transparent reflections of dominant post Revolutionary Mexican culture, but annotations and re-inscriptions of the particularities of Mexican society in the post-Revolutionary era.

À propos de l'auteur :
Dolores Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex

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