Iconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly abandoned? Films made in the past two decades clearly reflect transformations instituted by a neoliberal regime of cultural politics, yet significant elements of macho mythology continue to be rearticulated. Mexico Unmanned examines these structural continuities in recent commercial and auteur films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, and Julio Hernández Cordón, among others. Informed by cinema's role in Mexico's modern/colonial gender system, Samanta Ordóñez draws out recurrent patterns of signification that reproduce racialized categories of masculinity and bolster a larger network of social hierarchies. In so doing, Ordóñez dialogues with current intersectional gender theory, fresh scholarship on violence in the neoliberal state, and the latest research on Mexican cinema.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	248
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	State University of New York Press
Fecha de Publicación	2021-12-01
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.69" pulgadas
Serie	Suny Latin American Cinema
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Mexicano

Samanta Ordóñez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University.