MEXICAN CINEMA AS SEEN FROM MEXICO AND ABROAD

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Lauro José Zavala Alvarado (ed)
Coordinador
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33064/UAA/978-607-8909-99-5

Synopsis

The essays gathered here provide a general overview of contemporary studies on Mexican cinema, both those conducted within the country and those produced by foreign Mexicanists.
When observing the orientation of these works, the existence of distinct academic traditions that require constant dialogue to enrich their perspectives is evident. The importance of feminism and film language studies in the English tradition is evident; the weight of cultural studies and interdisciplinarity in the American tradition and the diversity of approaches in Mexican academia, with records ranging from semiotics and gender studies to ideological and historiographical approaches.
In particular, this volume contains works on the cinema of the Golden Age (Dolores Tierney); contemporary cinema (Yolanda Mercader); film genres (Silvia Álvarez Olarra); documentary film (Siboney Obscura); film and education (Rubén Olachea); film and politics (Rebecca Janzen); film and ideology (Javier Ramírez) and film language (Roberto Domínguez).
In the essay by Ignacio Sánchez Prado that opens the volume, an assessment is made of the antecedents that explain the differences between the studies of Mexicanists who work in the country and foreign Mexicanists who specialize in Mexican cinema.
This volume aims to contribute to the exchange of ideas among researchers of Mexican cinema working in the country and abroad.

Chapters

  • Presentation
    Lauro José Zavala Alvarado
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  • Foreword
    Mexican cinema from a contemporary perspective
    Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
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  • FROM MEXICO
  • Semiotics in classic Mexican cinema
    Roberto Domínguez Cáceres
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  • Cinema and Modernity in Mexico: The Dispossession of Antonio Reynoso
    Francisco Javier Ramírez Miranda
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  • Contemporary Mexican film production in the face of new communication processes
    Yolanda Norma Mercader Martínez
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  • Heli and other films in the university classroom
    Rubén Olachea Pérez
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  • Some aspects of recent research on documentary filmmaking at UNAM and UAM-X
    Siboney Obscura Gutiérrez
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  • FROM ABROAD
  • The staging in Enamorada: aesthetics and ideology
    Dolores M. Tierney
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  • Mexican cinema deserves different approaches for its study.
    Interview with Dolores Tierney
    Lauro José Zavala Alvarado
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  • The Reinvention of the Road Genre: Representing Grief at Lake Tahoe (2008)
    Silvia Álvarez Olarra
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  • Death and the State in Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas
    Rebecca Claire Suzanne Janzen
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Author Biographies

Lauro José Zavala Alvarado, Coordinador

Professor-researcher at UAM-Xochimilco. D. in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de México. President of the Mexican Association of Film Theory and Analysis (Sepancine). Author of Elementos del discurso cinematográfico (UAM-X, 2003); Para analizar cine y literatura (Madrid, 2017); Semiótica preliminar (FOEM, 2015); Semiótica fronteriza (FOEM, 2022); Manual de análisis narrativo (Trillas, 2010) and 35 other books as individual author, coordinator and anthologist.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

He holds the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Distinguished Chair in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is a full-time research professor in the Latin American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures programs. His research work focuses on theoretical, critical and institutional issues related to Mexican literature and film in particular. He is the author of seven books and editor of fourteen.

Roberto Domínguez Cáceres

D. in Literature and Master in Modern Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Since 1989 he has been a full-time professor-researcher at the School of Humanities and Education of the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). His areas of interest are narrative and cultural representations.

Francisco Javier Ramírez Miranda

Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences, master's degree and doctorate in Art History from UNAM. Full-time professor at ENES Morelia. Founding member of the Seminario Universitario de Análisis Cinematográfico. Author of Ibargüengoitia va al cine and several articles about the cinematographic phenomenon. He has been a researcher for different audiovisual products for film and television.

Yolanda Norma Mercader Martínez

Professor-researcher at UAM-Xochimilco. She belongs to the research area Transdisciplinary Communication in Media Convergence. She coordinates the area of concentration in Film and Gender and the module of Cinematography and Audiovisual Production. B.A. in Social Anthropology. Master in Social Anthropology and Master in Library Science.

Rubén Olachea Pérez

D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick, UK. Full-time professor-researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. Assigned to the Bachelor's Degree in Communication of the Academic Department of Social and Legal Sciences. In 2022, Rubén Olachea completed 20 years of work at UABCS.

Siboney Obscura Gutiérrez

D. in Political and Social Sciences, Sociology (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM). She teaches Image and Audiovisual Discourse, Cinema as Audiovisual Culture and Social and Cultural Studies of Audiovisual Production at SUAyED (Open University and Distance Education System) at UNAM. Author of the e-book Análisis de la difusión de las imágenes en la producción audiovisual (2021).

Dolores M. Tierney

Professor and Research Chair at the University of Sussex, England, and author of the books Emilio Fernández. Pictures in the Margins (2008) and New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2018). A Spanish translation of Emilio Fernández is in press under the coordination of Peter Lang Publishers.

Silvia Álvarez Olarra

Associate Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY-BMCC). Her most recent publications in Mexican studies deal with film and visual aesthetics in general. She is now working on a book, as well as co-editing a collective volume on the cinema of Carlos Reygadas, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Rebecca Claire Suzanne Janzen

McCausland Research Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of four books on literature, film and law in Mexico: The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control (2015), Liminal Sovereignty: Mennonites and Mormons in Mexican Culture (2018), Unholy Trinity: State, Church and Film in Mexico (2021) and Unlawful Violence: Law and Cultural Production in 21st Century Mexico (2022).

portada el cine mexicano visto desde méxico y el extranjero

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May 23, 2024

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