Emilio Fern ndez: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fern ndez (1904-1986) the most successful director of classical Mexican Cinema, famed with creating films that embody a loosely defined Mexican school of filmmaking. However, rather than offer an auteurist study this book interrogates the construction of Fern ndez as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g...