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The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
By Berg, Charles Ramírez
- ISBN
- 9781477302514 9781477308059 9781477308073
- Publisher
- Univ. of Texas
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Elucidating a contextual continuum and tracing influences from the Mexican artistic and ideological palette, Berg (media studies, Univ. of Texas; Latino Images in Film) adds a brilliant reappraisal of the transformative films from 1936 to 1957, which countered largely derivative work from mainstream Mexican cinema to form the nucleus of the Cine de Oro. Beginning with a new foundation for the language of narrative set forth by visu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
