Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983

by Charles Ramírez Berg

Book Overview

La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones. These are the films explored by Charles Ram rez Berg in Cinema of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292707959
• ISBN13: 9780292707955
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"