Mexican Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television

By Paul Julian Smith

Book Overview

Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mam tambi n. Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074568078X
• ISBN13: 9780745680781
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

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Paul Julian Smith carries us through the contemporary influence of Mexican screen fiction, emphasizing the difference between cinema and television. Before reading this book, I am sure you thought you had a pretty good handle on the subject. However, he is systematic and almost textbook-like in showing you what you may have missed. It opened my eyes. I was wondering why the book covered “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) as I thought it was a film from Spain, then I realized it is more of a dissertation on Guillermo del Toro (Mexican). Too bad they left out “Sleep Dealer” (2008) Álvaro Curiel, Assistant Director born on September 10, 1973, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico as Álvaro Curiel de Icaza. Grandson of Federico Curiel. We cannot include everything as the book is focusing on today’s screen fiction. I am gaining a new reverence for TV from this book by Paul Julian Smith. However, with only two years of Spanish, I can barely keep up and am glad this book is written in English. I hope you are not expecting too many pictures, as there are only a handful of black and white. There is an Appendix: interviews with five media professionals, a fair bibliography, and an index. It looks like how I spend my limited discretionary income will have to be re-evaluated as I search for the films mentioned in this book.