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Title: Mexico Unmanned : The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema
Description: Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.Iconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly abandoned? Films made in the past two decades clearly reflect transformations instituted by a neoliberal regime of cultural politics, yet significant elements of macho mythology continue to be rearticulated. Mexico Unmanned examines these structural continuities in recent commercial and auteur films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, and Julio Hernández Cordón, among others. Informed by cinema's role in Mexico's modern/colonial gender system, Samanta Ordóñez draws out recurrent patterns of signification that reproduce racialized categories of masculinity and bolster a larger network of social hierarchies. In so doing, Ordóñez dialogues with current intersectional gender theory, fresh scholarship on violence in the neoliberal state, and the latest research on Mexican cinema.
Authors: Samanta Ordóñez
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Subjects: Motion pictures--Mexico--History, Masculinity in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Political aspects--Mexico, Motion pictures--Social aspects--Mexico
Categories: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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