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Table of Contents List of Illustrations i Preface Dr Nuala Finnegan iii Acknowledgements vii Introduction - Mexican Filmmaking in the 1990s 1 PART I: HISTORY Chapter 1 - Political Histories: Three Case Studies 11 1. Context(s) 11 2. Rojo amanecer (1989) 15 3. El Bulto (1991) 19 3.1 Past and Present Collide 23 3.2 Salinas' Mexico 24 3.3 Political (Re)visions 27 4. La Ley de Herodes (1999) 29 4.1 Political Stings 33 4.2 Murder, Slander, and Satire 37 4.3 Political Maneuvers 39 Chapter 2 - Re-writing the Conquest: Nicola?s Echevarri?a's Cabeza de Vaca (1992) and Salvador Carrasco's La Otra Conquista (1999) 45 1. Historical Context(s) 45 1.1 The Year 1992 46 2. Cabeza de Vaca (1992) 48 2.1 Truth and Lies 52 2.2 Identity Crises 54 2.3 Assimilation 58 2.4 Conflicting Codes 60 3. La Otra Conquista (1999) 62 3.1 The Spiritual Conquest 64 3.1.1 The Mother 65 3.1.2 The War of Images 67 4. Reversing the Negative Paradigm 71 4.1 This is my Body, this is my Blood 73 5. A Hybrid Nation 75 PART II: WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA Chapter 3 - Re-defining la madre mexicana in Mari?a Novaro's Lola (1989) 81 1. Women and Filmmaking in Mexico: An Overview 81 1.1 Sociohistorical Change(s) 82 2. The Women Directors of Contemporary Mexican Cinema 84 2.1 Female Narratives on the Contemporary Screen 86 3. The Creation of an Idol: Sara Garci?a and la madre mexicana 89 3.1 Mexico's Mothering Complex: An Overview 91 4. Motherhood Re-Visited: The Case of Mari?a Novaro's Lola (1989) 93 4.1 The Conflicts of Motherhood 94 4.2 Mothers and Daughters 101 4.3 Mexico's sagrada familia Demystified 107 Chapter 4 - Retorno al arrabal: The Case of Dana Rotberg's Angel de fuego (1992) 115 1. Context(s) 115 2. Dana Rotberg and Angel de fuego (1992) 117 3. Three Different Visions of the arrabal in Mexican Cinematic History 121 3.1 The Good: Rodri?guez's 'Valle de La?grimas / Valley of Tears' vs Galindo's 'Social Realism' 121 3.2 The Bad: Benevolent Poverty on the Screen 124 3.3 The Ugly: Bun uel's Demystification of the arrabal 126 3.3.1 Los olvidados (1950) 128 3.4 Rotberg's re-vision of the arrabal - Social/Political Contexts 130 3.4.1 The arrabal Re-visited 132 4. Representations of the Body in Angel de fuego - Body vs Soul 134 4.1 The Body as Sin 139 4.1.1 The Body as Text 142 PART III: GEOGRAPHICAL (RE)LOCATIONS Chapter 5 - Re-Mapping the Borderlands: Mari?a Novaro's El Jardi?n del Ede?n (1994) 149 1. Context(s) 149 1.1 El jardi?n del Ede?n (1994) 150 2. Geographies of Location: Borders and Boundaries - Physical Borders 153 2.1 Boundaries - Geographical Boundaries 161 2.1.1 Other Boundaries 166 3. Imagined Spaces: Re-Locating the Garden of Eden 174 Chapter 6 - Mexico's Other Geographies: The Big City vs The Country 181 1. Context(s) 181 1.1 The City in Mexican Cinema 182 1.1.1 Mexico City in Golden Age Cinema 183 1.2 Contemporary Mexican Cinema Returns to the City 189 2. So?lo con tu pareja (1991) 191 2.1 Mexico City in So?lo con tu pareja (1991) 195 2.1.1 Urban Geographies 196 2.2 The Postmodern City 198 3. The 'Other' Mexicos 202 3.1 The Birth of the Rancheras 202 3.2 Rural Life in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: the Figueroa-Ferna?ndez Formula 206 3.2.1 Mexicanidad on the Screen 206 3.3 Contemporary Visions of the Country: Felipe Cazals' Canoa (1975) 213 3.3.1 Carlos Carrera's La mujer de Benjami?n (1991) 215 Conclusion 229 Bibliography 235 Index 247
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Motion pictures -- Mexico.