Mex-Ciné

Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

• Author(s): Frederick Luis Aldama,
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Pages: 268
• ISBN_13: 9780472051939
  ISBN_10: 0472051938
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Latin America / Mexico , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Performing Arts / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Performing Arts / Film / Regional & National , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... Mex-Cinéoffers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cinéaims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its corpus. A sustained, free-flowing book-length meditation, Mex-Ciné enriches our understanding of the way contemporary Mexican directors use specific technical devices, structures, and characterizations in making films in ways that guide the perceptual, emotive, and cognitive faculties of their ideal audiences, while providing the historical contexts in which these films are made and consumed.