The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films

by Charles Ramírez Berg

From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood's paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fern?ndez, Luis Bu?uel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477308059
• ISBN13: 9781477308059
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"