Emilio Fernandez

Pictures in the Margins

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by Dolores Tierney

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Emilio Fernandez

Keywords

Emilio Fernandez, Mexico

Publishing date

2008

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Collection

Spanish and Latin American filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

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

ISBN

978-0-7190-8844-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Dolores Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press

See the complete filmography of Emilio Fernandez on the website: IMDB ...