Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins (Spanish and Latin American Film) (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers) - Hardcover

Dolores Tierney

9780719074325: Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins (Spanish and Latin American Film) (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719074320 ISBN 13: 9780719074325

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

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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Synopsis:

This is the first English language study of this giant of world cinema. It explores the construction of Fernandez as both a national and nationalist auteur. It challenges auteurist readings of his films in order to make new arguments about the significance of Fernandez and his work. It examines the significance of Fernandez's marginalization as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director.

About the Author:

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

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