Mexico Unmanned : The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema (Suny series in Latin American Cinema)

Ordóñez, Samanta

State University of New York Press（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438486284
• DDC分類 791.43652110972

Full 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.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

1. Old Macho Mythologies in New Mexican Cinema—Y tu mama también and Rudo y Cursi

2. Demystifying Machismo in Batalla en el cielo and Post tenebras lux

3. Manufacturing Malformed Masculinities in Heli

4. Neoliberal Masculinities between Romance and Realism in Te prometo anarquía

Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index