Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeFigures vii Preface viii Introduction: Mexican Screen Fiction 1 Jump Cut 1: Y tu mamá también 7 PART I SETTING SCENES 13 1 Revising Mexican Cinema 15 2 Following Festivals 30 Jump Cut 2: Perfume de violetas, Frida 47 PART II AUTEURS AND GENRES 53 3 A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Julián Hernández's A Thousand Clouds of Peace Encircle the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End 55 4 A Case Study in Genre and Nationality: Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth 64 Jump Cut 3: 21 Grams, Battle in Heaven, KM 31 78 PART III MARGINAL SUBJECTS 87 5 Youth Culture in Mexico: Rebel, I'm Gonna Explode 89 6 Lady Killers in TV Fiction: Women Murderers, The Aparicio Women 120 Jump Cut 4: We Are What We Are, Leap Year 152 PART IV TALES OF INSECURITY 159 7 Film Fictions of Violence: Hell, Saving Private Pérez, Miss Bala 161 8 TV Histories of Violence: In the Sewers, Cries of Death and Freedom 191 Jump Cut 5: The Prize, Windows to the Sea 220 Conclusion: Between Cinema and Television 224 Appendix: Interviews with Five Media Professionals (Jesús Mario Lozano, Daniela Michel, Alejandro Ramírez, Roberto Fiesco, Leticia López Margalli) 227 Bibliography 256 Index 266
