Global Mexican Cinema Its Golden Age

by Irwin, Robert; Ricalde, Maricruz

• ISBN13: 9781844575329
• ISBN10: 1844575322
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-11-13
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

The golden age of Mexican cinema, which spanned the 1930s through to the 1950s, saw Mexico's film industry become one of
the most productive in the world, exercising a decisive influence on national culture and identity.

In the first major study of the global reception and impact of Mexican Golden Age cinema, this book captures the key aspects of its international success, from its role in forming a nostalgic cultural landscape for Mexican emigrants working in the United States, to its economic and cultural influence on Latin America, Spain and Yugoslavia. Challenging existing perceptions, the authors reveal how its film industry helped establish Mexico as a long standing centre of cultural influence for the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.

Author Biography

Robert McKee Irwin is Professor and Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portugese at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mexican Masculinities and Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands, and co-editor of Hispanisms and Homosexualities and The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico.

Mariacruz Castro Ricalde is Professor of Humanities at the Tecnológico de Monterry, Mexico. She is author of several books on Mexican culture and literature in Spanish, including Escrituras En Contraste: Femenino, Masculino En La Literatura Mexicana and Josefina Vicens: Un Vacio Siempre Lleno.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction; Robert McKee Irwin and Maricruz Castro Ricalde
1. Rumba Caliente Beats Foxtrot: Cinematic Cultural Exchanges Between Mexico and
Cuba; Maricruz Castro Ricalde (Robert McKee Irwin, trans.)
2. Así se quere en Antioquia: Mexican Golden Age Cinema in Colombia; Robert McKee
Irwin
3. Mexico's Appropriation of the Latin American Visual Imaginary: Rómulo Gallegos in
Mexico; Robert McKee Irwin
4. Latin American Rivalry: Libertad Lamarque in Mexican Golden Age Cinema; Mónica
Szurmuk and Maricruz Castro Ricalde (Robert McKee Irwin, trans.)
5. Mexican National Cinema in the USA: Good Neighbors and Transnational
Mexican Audiences; Robert McKee Irwin
6. Panhispanic Romances in Times of Rupture: Spanish-Mexican Cinema; Inmaculada
Álvarez and Maricruz Castro Ricalde (Robert McKee Irwin, trans.)
7. Vedro Nebo in Far Off Lands: Mexican Golden Age Cinema's Unexpected Triumph in
Tito's Yugoslavia; Dubravka Sužnjevic and Robert McKee Irwin
Epilogue; Robert McKee Irwin and Maricruz Castro Ricalde
Bibliography
Index