Violence, conflict and discourse in Mexican cinema (2002-2015) / Miriam Haddu.
Haddu, Miriam, 1971- author.
2022
PN1993.5.M4 H33 2022eb
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Title Violence, conflict and discourse in Mexican cinema (2002-2015) / Miriam Haddu.
Author Haddu, Miriam, 1971- author.
ISBN 9781137282118 (electronic bk.)
1137282118 (electronic bk.)
113728210X
9781137282101
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-28211-8
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-28211-8 doi
Call Number PN1993.5.M4 H33 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.430972
Summary 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.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Indigeneity, Insurgency and Resistance: El violín (2006) and Corazón del tiempo (2009)
Chapter 3: Political Violence: The Case of Conejo en la luna (Rabbit on the Moon) (2004) and Colosio: El asesinato (Colosio: The Assassination) (2012)
Chapter 4: Drug Violence and Narco Wars Part I: Luis Estrada's El infierno (Hell) (2010)
Chapter 5: Drug Violence and Narco Wars Part II: Amat Escalante's Heli (2013)
Chapter 6: Spectral Visions: Mexican Directors in Europe (Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón)
Chapter 7: Textual Hybridities in Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino (2002)
Chapter 8: Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo's Ausencias (2015)
Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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