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Durham E-Theses Pulling focus: New perspectives on the work of Gabriel Figueroa Higgins, Ceridwen Rhiannon How to cite: Higgins, Ceridwen Rhiannon (2007) Pulling focus: New perspectives on the work of Gabriel Figueroa, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2579/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk Pulling Focus: New Perspectives on the Work of Gabriel Figueroa by Ceridwen Rhiannon Higgins University of Durham 2007 Submitted for Examination for Degree of PhD 1 1 JUN 2007 Abstract This thesis examines the work of Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907 -1997) and suggests new critical perspectives on his films and the contexts within which they were made. Despite intense debate over a number of years, auteurist notions in film studies persist and critical attention continues to centre on the director as the sole giver of meaning to a film. -
The Only Defense Is Excess: Translating and Surpassing Hollywood’S Conventions to Establish a Relevant Mexican Cinema”*
ANAGRAMAS - UNIVERSIDAD DE MEDELLIN “The Only Defense is Excess: Translating and Surpassing Hollywood’s Conventions to Establish a Relevant Mexican Cinema”* Paula Barreiro Posada** Recibido: 27 de enero de 2011 Aprobado: 4 de marzo de 2011 Abstract Mexico is one of the countries which has adapted American cinematographic genres with success and productivity. This country has seen in Hollywood an effective structure for approaching the audience. With the purpose of approaching national and international audiences, Meximo has not only adopted some of Hollywood cinematographic genres, but it has also combined them with Mexican genres such as “Cabaretera” in order to reflect its social context and national identity. The Melodrama and the Film Noir were two of the Hollywood genres which exercised a stronger influence on the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. Influence of these genres is specifically evident in style and narrative of the film Aventurera (1949). This film shows the links between Hollywood and Mexican cinema, displaying how some Hollywood conventions were translated and reformed in order to create its own Mexican Cinema. Most countries intending to create their own cinema have to face Hollywood influence. This industry has always been seen as a leading industry in technology, innovation, and economic capacity, and as the Nemesis of local cinema. This case study on Aventurera shows that Mexican cinema reached progress until exceeding conventions of cinematographic genres taken from Hollywood, creating stories which went beyond the local interest. Key words: cinematographic genres, melodrama, film noir, Mexican cinema, cabaretera. * La presente investigación fue desarrollada como tesis de grado para la maestría en Media Arts que completé en el 2010 en la Universidad de Arizona, Estados Unidos. -
Nostalgia for El Indio
FILMS NOSTALGIA FOR EL INDIO Fernando Fuentes This biography of Emilio Fernández, pacity creates a clear photographic Origins, Revolutions, Emigration one of Mexico's most famous film di- identity whether he portrays the Me- rectors of the so-called Golden Age of xican countryside or the urban scene. Emilio Fernández, known in the film Mexican film, was written with the All the solemn moments in his world as El Indio, was born in what is analytic professionalism and historic films are impregnated by a nostalgia now a ghost town but was part of a vision characteristic of Emilio García for the Revolution on the nationalist mining zone called Mineral de Hon- Riera. level, and by nostalgia for virginity do, in the municipality of Sabinas, In his detailed revision of El Indio on an emotional level, whether the Coahuila. He was the only child of Fernández' cinematographic work, film is set in the violence of the pro- Sara Romo, a Kikapoo Indian, and the author provides a critical evalu- vinces or in urban cabarets or bur- of Emilio Fernández Garza. ation of the film maker's produc- dels. The rhythm of his stories is He participated in the Revolution tion, and generally refers exactly to marked by impulses of a energetic as a boy, or at least, he dedicated his sources, be these material from sensibility and an admirable artistic himself to taking mental photos: "I newspapers, magazines or books, or capacity. had what all boys dream about: a pis- testimonies of those who lived or El Indio Fernández is a poet of tol, a horse and a battleground. -
Contenido Estrenos Mexicanos
Contenido estrenos mexicanos ............................................................................120 programas especiales mexicanos .................................. 122 Foro de los Pueblos Indígenas 2019 .......................................... 122 Programa Exilio Español ....................................................................... 123 introducción ...........................................................................................................4 Programa Luis Buñuel ............................................................................. 128 Presentación ............................................................................................................... 5 El Día Después ................................................................................................ 132 ¡Bienvenidos a Morelia! ................................................................................... 7 Feratum Film Festival .............................................................................. 134 Mensaje de la Secretaría de Cultura ....................................................8 ......... 10 Mensaje del Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía funciones especiales mexicanas .......................................137 17° Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia ............................11 programas especiales internacionales................148 ...........................................................................................................................12 jurados Programa Agnès Varda ...........................................................................148 -
The Revolution Is History: Filming the Past in Mexico and Cuba JOHN MRAZ
The Revolution is History: Filming the Past in Mexico and Cuba JOHN MRAZ As is their nature, social revolutions in Mexico and Cuba dramatically altered the lives of millions. 1 During the «effervescent» periods which followed the uprisings's triumphs, political and socioeconomic transformation bettered the lot of most people, and cultural creativity flourished; unfortunately, the revolutions were later deformed into dictatorships -of party in Mexico, of individual in Cuba. 2 Caught up in the midst of these soul-shaking metamorphoses, filmmakers have reflected critically on the legitimizing myths of the New Orders, as well as participated enthusiastically in their construction. The revolution itself is the founding legend, the keystone chronicle of these cultures; it is history in the simplest sense of the word, for the films are reconstructions of times past. I want to examine how some of the best directors of the better films in Mexico and Cuba have portrayed the revolutions in their countries, as well as interrogate their use of history in constructing concepts of nation and identity. I also wish to focus on how the filmic visions of both revolution and history have changed as the post-revolutionary States have mutated from their open, pluralistic beginnings into institutionalized, reified authorities. Here, one of the most interesting facets is to observe how the representations of history varies between «histories», heterogenous and pluralist stories about the past, and «History», master narratives of totalizing epics designed to legitimate the present. These are unfashionable reflections, caught as we are in a «post- modern» world of neo-liberal orthodoxy which denies both the possibility of revolutionary transformation and the relevance of history. -
La Naturaleza Contradictoria De Las Películas Hechas En México Sobre La Revolución Mexicana
LA NATURALEZA CONTRADICTORIA DE LAS PELÍCULAS HECHAS EN MÉXICO SOBRE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA A Thesis by ALEX STEVE GARZA Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2010 Major Subject: Modern Languages LA NATURALEZA CONTRADICTORIA DE LAS PELÍCULAS HECHAS EN MÉXICO SOBRE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA A Thesis by ALEX STEVE GARZA Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Approved by: Chair of Committee, Richard Curry Committee Members, José Pablo Villalobos Henry C. Schmidt Head of Department, Larry J. Mitchell August 2010 Major Subject: Modern Languages iii ABSTRACT La Naturaleza Contradictoria de las Películas Hechas en México Sobre la Revolución Mexicana. (August 2010) Alex Steve Garza, B.A., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Richard Curry This investigation analyzes eleven movies made in Mexico about the 1910 Revolution and identifies contradictory elements that allow the films to portray and propagate conservative social and political structures while championing the revolutionary movement and its non-conservative ideals. By endorsing heroic patriarchal figures and structures, reinforcing machismo, and simplifying the ideals and reasons for fighting held by historical figures, the films manage to establish conservative practices while celebrating the revolutionary movement. What follows is a detailed analysis of a -
Ten Reasons to Love Or Hate Mexican Cinema
Ten Reasons to Love or Hate phenomenon, the principal historian of Mexican Mexican Cinema silent cinema, Aurelio de los Reyes, writes without hesitation in 1977: This first Mexican cinema constituted Mexico's principal contribution to world cinema. As time Paulo Antonio Paranaguti went by, this cinema has become doubly important. Firstly, because it showed images of the Revolution that no literary practice could match. Secondly, because its faithfulness to the geographic and chronological sequence of events and its desire to record 'historical events' was a local vernacular form of presenting newsreels ... Allow me to use the first person to emphasise the particular importance of this volume. Although I am In face, during its initial nomadic phase, travelling Brazilian by birth, Mexican cinema interests me, noc camera operators carried the cinema all over Mexico . because of Latin American solidarity (which is all too These projectionist-operator s thus acquired ofcen reduced to a kind of sacrosanct rhetoric to important experience (decentralisation had not yet commemorate the dead) , buc for a series of reasons become fashionable). In 1910, on the eve of the lisced below that stir up the whole spectrum of armed insurrection against the dictatorship, emotions, ranging from delight to depression . production and exhibition were nationally controlled. The foreign presence was limited to a few I . Undoubtedly for the first time in Latin America, if distributors and to technological dependence . The not in the world, Mexico witnessed the birth of a film business enjoyed its first boom in 1906 with the contemporary political cinema directly Linked to major opening of the first real movie theatres. -
Las Lecciones De Fernando De Fuentes*
Las lecciones de Fernando de Fuentes* Gustavo García** Miradas al Cine Mexicano Fernando de Fuentes es uno de los productos perfectos de esa invención genial de la Re- pública Restaurada y el Porfi- riato, la clase media ilustrada, de donde vendrían desde los miembros del Ateneo de la Juventud en la primera déca- da del siglo XX hasta los Con- temporáneos y los primeros cineastas. De hecho, hasta los años sesenta, el cine mexica- no se moverá a la sombra de El compadre Mendoza (Fernando de Fuentes y Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934), una formación ideológica a reproducida bajo el amparo del artículo 148 de la Ley Federal de Derecho de Autor. * Artículo publicado original- caballo entre la infancia por- mente en la versión impresa firiana, la adolescencia o pri- de Estudios Cinematográfi- cos: Revista de actualización mera etapa adulta en la violencia revolucionaria, y la relativa estabilidad de los años técnica y académica del Cen- veinte como el periodo de asimilación de influencias estéticas extranjeras y la búsqueda tro Universitario de Estudios de un catálogo de tipos, temas y ambientes que dieran forma a “lo mexicano”, al con- Cinematográficos, núm. 28, cepto de Nación del nuevo régimen. Esas tres etapas serán los códigos comunes de año 10, septiembre-noviem- bre, 2005; pp. 73-80. guionistas, actores, directores, productores y hasta camarógrafos. ** Periodista, crítico e inves- Nacido en el puerto de Veracruz, pero criado en Monterrey, a donde le llevó el trabajo tigador cinematográfico, de su padre como empleado del Banco Nacional de México, tiene 15 años cuando estalla Gustavo García fue profesor la Revolución. -
Fernando De Fuentes
ESTRUCTURA Y DESARROLLO VICTOR HUGO HERNÁNDEZ FERNANDEZ DE LOS MEDIOS I YESIKA LOPEZ AYALA HAZ CLIC EN LOS NOMBRES PARA IR A LOS BLOGS FERNANDO DE FUENTES INICIADOR DE VARIOS DE LOS GÉNEROS CARACTERÍSTICOS EN EL CINE MEXICANO Los críticos coinciden en que: “De Fuentes es sin duda la figura más importante del cine mexicano de los años treinta, es decir, de la primera época sonora”. BIOGRAFÍA FILMOGRAFÍA ACTIVIDADES Fernando de Fuentes CINEMATOGRÁFICAS (1894 - 1958) COMENTARIOS DE PELÍCULAS PREGUNTA BIBLIOGRAFÍA BIOGRAFÍA La trayectoria profesional de 1894 Fernando de Fuentes nace en Veracruz, en el estado Fernando de Fuentes homónimo. puede considerarse un arquetipo de las de 1931 Colabora con Antonio Moreno en “Santa”, primera muchos directores película sonora mexicana. mexicanos; desde sus primeros temas un Es coadaptador para la película “Una vida por otra”. 1932 pretendido universalismo, en los 1933 Dirige El compadre Mendoza que mejor ha tratado el que no están ausentes tema de La Revolución Mexicana. los presupuestos que informan toda la 1936 Realiza “Allá en el rancho grande”, con Tito Guízar producción que por como protagonista. aquel entonces se 1938 Premiado en el Bienal de Venecia, por al película realizaba en los “Allá en el rancho grande”. estudios de Hollywood, hasta los 1942 Realiza “Así se quiere en jalisco”. asuntos más arraigados en la entraña racial o en 1943 Dirige “Doña Bárbara”, sobre la obra de Rómulo Gallegos. la historia de la nación, o en el 1950 Realiza “Crimen y castigo”, adaptación de la novela de folklore y los Dostoievski. caracteres del país. 1958 Muere en Ciudad de México. -
The Mexican Film Bulletin Vol
THE MEXICAN FILM BULLETIN VOL. 24 NO. 2 June 2018 TThhee MMeexxiiccaann FFiillmm BBuulllleettiinn VVoolluummee 2244 NNuummbbeerr 22 JJuunnee 22001188 otro idioma; Juan Pablo de Santiago, Sueño en otro 2018 Ariel Awards idioma; Miguel Rodarte, Tiempo compartido. The 60th Ariel Awards ceremony was held in the Best Supporting Actor: Héctor Holten, El vigilante; Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on 5 June 2018. Hernán Mendoza, Las hijas de Abril; Norman Delgadillo, Sueño en otro idioma won 6 Arieles, including Best Film. Los crímenes de Mar del Norte; Andrés Almeida, Tiempo La región salvaje received 5 awards, including Best compartido; Tenoch Huerta Vuelven. Director for Amat Escalante. Lifetime achievement Best Supporting Actress: Bernarda Trueba, La región Arieles de Oro went to actress Queta Lavat, whose career salvaje; Vico Escorcia, Los crímenes de Mar del Norte; dates back to the 1940s, and cinematographer Toni Kuhn. Norma Angélica, Sueño en otro idioma; Mónica Miguel, 2018 Arieles (Winners in Bold) Sueño en otro idioma; Mercedes Pascual, Tamara y la Best Film: Batallas íntimas (dir. Lucia Gajá); La Catarina. libertad del Diablo (dir. Everardo González); La región Best New Actress: Macarena Arias, Alba; Ruth Ramos, salvaje (dir. Amat La región salvaje; Ana Valeria Becerril, Las hijas de Escalante); Sueño Abril; Nicolasa Ortiz Monasterio, Sueño en otro idioma; en otro idioma Paola Lara, Vuelven. (dir. Ernesto Best New Actor: Luis Amaya Rodríguez, Ayúdame a Contreras); pasar la noche; Jesús Meza, La región salvaje; Máximo Tiempo Hollander, Los herederos; Luis de la Rosa, Mientras el compartido (dir. lobo no está; Juan Ramón López, Vuelven. Sebastián Best Original Screenplay: Everardo González, Diego Hofmann). -
Performing the Mexican Revolution in Neoliberal Times
ABSTRACT Since the time of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, images associated with this nation-defining event have been presented in an array of media and cultural productions. Within the past two decades these images have been re-imagined, re-coded and re/de- constructed in reaction to social and cultural changes associated with a crisis of political legitimation and the demise of hegemonic revolutionary ideology, as espoused by the long-ruling Party of the Institionalized Revolution (PRI), amid the generalized implementation of neoliberal policies in the county. My dissertation argues that the ascendance of neoliberalism, with the opening of Mexican economic and political systems, has resulted in changes in the socio-cultural work performed by the Revolution- Nation-Gender triad. This trinity, solidified in the post-Revolutionary national imaginary, weaves the three notions together such that as hegemonic discourses of Revolutionary nationalism enter in crisis, discourses of gender are also destabilized. The dissertation consists of three main sub-arguments. First, I argue that the discourse(s) surrounding Revolutionary heroes has been integral to the (re)definition of the Mexican nation and that analyzing recodings of this discourse through the example of Emiliano Zapata reveals a destabilization of hegemonic nationalism. These changes have allowed alternatives to surface both in Mexico and across the border as part of a recoded ii transnational Revolutionary nationalism. As cracks opened in the Revolutionary edifice allowing alternatives to emerge, they have also opened space for alternative gender discourses. I next argue that a close analysis of representations of masculine gender roles as manifested in a variety of cultural texts, specifically through Revolutionary icons Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, reveals a crisis of the macho archetype in the contemporary Mexican nation. -
Fernando De Fuentes Carrau
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán Estructura y desarrollo de los medios I José Botello Carrillo Moreno Erick Antonio Torres Tlapale Guadalupe Hernández Ramírez Ana Karen Hernández Cervantes Aimee Xocen Sadyajit Fernando de Fuentes Carrau Biografía Nació en Veracruz, Veracruz, México el día 13 de diciembre de 1894 y falleció el 4 de julio de 1958 Fernando de Fuentes Carrau fue un guionista, productor y director de cine mexicano. Fue director de dos películas clásicas del cine mexicano El Compadre Mendoza (1933) y ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1935), De Fuentes inició su carrera como segundo ayudante de dirección en Santa (1931), la primera película sonora producida en México. Su capacidad técnica lo promovió a dirigir El Anónimo (1932). De Fuentes es considerado un pionero en películas mexicanas y un director verdaderamente talentoso, que combina excelentes habilidades técnicas con un extraordinario sentido. Inventó el género cinematográfico de la comedia ranchera mexicana, con Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), la primera película mexicana con gran éxito en los mercados extranjeros. Descubrió a Gabriel Figueroa y fue pionero en géneros como el horror, melodrama e histórico. De Fuentes fue el primer director mexicano que hizo una película en color Así se Quiere en Jalisco (1942). También fue el primero en hacer una película en coproducción con otro país Jalisco Canta en Sevilla (1948), coproducida con España. Tuvo dos hijos y murió por un ataque al corazón. Actividades cinematográficas • Gracias a sus películas Bajo el cielo de Mexico1937, La zandunga1937 y Allá en el racho Grande 1935 surgió una especie de género cinematográfico cuyas originales convenciones lo hacen genuinamente nacional : Comedia Ranchera • Alimenta con canciones vernáculas, amables cuadros de costumbres rurales y un humor muy simple , la comedia ranchera alcanza con rapidez popularidad continental • La comedia ranchera, a saber, nace como un genero paródico.