@article{1444062,
      recid = {1444062},
      author = {Haddu, Miriam,},
      title = {Violence, conflict and discourse in Mexican cinema  (2002-2015) /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) :},
      abstract = {The last two decades have seen dramatic changes to  Mexico's socio-political landscape. A former president  fleeing into exile, political assassinations, a rebellion  in Chiapas, and the eruption of the so-called war on drugs  provide key examples of critical events shaping the nation.  This book examines Mexican cinema's representations of, and  responses to, these socio-political moments. Beginning with  the definitive year 1994, the early chapters in this book  discuss the presence of guerilla uprisings amidst political  upheaval, and how they find screen representation. A key  focus of this book is also the so-called narco-war and its  effects on Mexican society, read through the prism of  selected filmic texts. Focusing on both fiction and  documentary filmmaking, notions of violence, victimhood,  and the complex processing of grief in the context of  enforced disappearances and the narco-conflict are explored  in this study. Furthermore, the investigations offer a  comparative approach to examining films both made in Mexico  and beyond its frontiers, seen in the transnational work of  Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro González  Iñárritu. The discussions offer an understanding of the  imprints left by warfare and trauma upon the collective and  individual psyche. Using rigorous theoretical frameworks  and succinct filmic analyses, this book will be essential  reading for those interested in Mexican and Latin American  film, as well as those working in the fields of Cultural,  Screen, and Trauma Studies. Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer  in the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of  London, United Kingdom.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444062},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-28211-8},
}