Emilio FernaNdez - Pictures in the Margins (Paperback)

Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernandez (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 Fernandez 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 Fernandez 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 Fernandez'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 Fernandez'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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	2007
Authors:	Dolores Tierney
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8844-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-8844-5
Barcode:	9780719088445

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