Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave
ISBN-10
0816532516
ISBN-13
9780816532513
Category
Art
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2016-10-18
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Author
Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Description

"Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present"--Provided by publisher.

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