This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico's and Latin America's most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández' most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).

Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (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 Fernández as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. as macho mexicano and indio). It also challenges auteurist readings of the films themselves in order to make new arguments about the significance of Fernández and his work.
The aim of this book is to question Mexico's fetishisation of its own position on the peripheries of the global cultural economy and the similar fetishisation of Fernández's marginalisation as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director. This book argues that, as pictures in the margins, classical Mexican cinema and specifically Fernández's films are not transparent reflections of dominant post Revolutionary Mexican culture, but annotations and re-inscriptions of the particularities of Mexican society in the post-Revolutionary era.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	208
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Manchester University Press
Fecha de Publicación	2012-09-01
Dimensiones	8.5" x 5.5" x 0.45" pulgadas
Serie	Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	América Latina, Mexicano

Tierney, Dolores

Dolores Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex