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. -- .
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