Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema

by David William Foster

Book Overview

Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. Through close readings of fourteen recent critically acclaimed films, this book watches Mexican...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725426
• ISBN13: 9780292725423
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"