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Emilio Fern\u00e1ndez: Pictures in the Margins<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Manchester University Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2007
\n192 pages
\n216 x 138 mm
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-7432-5
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8844-5<\/p>\n

Dolores Tierney<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
\nUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

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Emilio Fern\u00e1ndez: Pictures in the Margins<\/em> is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> (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<\/a> study this book interrogates the construction of Fern\u00e1ndez as both a national and nationalist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. as macho mexicano and indio<\/strong>). It also challenges auteurist readings of the films themselves in order to make new arguments about the significance of Fern\u00e1ndez and his work.<\/p>\n

The aim of this book is to question Mexico\u2019s fetishisation of its own position on the peripheries of the global cultural economy and the similar fetishisation of Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s marginalisation as a mixed race (part white and part indigenous) director.<\/strong> This book argues that, as pictures in the margins, classical Mexican cinema and specifically Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s films are not transparent reflections of dominant post Revolutionary Mexican<\/a> culture, but annotations and re-inscriptions of the particularities of Mexican society in the post-Revolutionary era.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n