{"product_id":"mexican-screen-fiction-9780745680798","title":"Mexican Screen Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también. Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationally renowned directors like Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Guillermo del Toro. At the same time, television has broadened its output, moving beyond telenovelas to produce higher-value series and mini-series. Mexican TV now stakes a claim to being the most dynamic and pervasive national narrative.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new book by Paul Julian Smith is the first to examine the flourishing of audiovisual fiction in Mexico since 2000, considering cinema and TV together. It covers much material previously unexplored and engages with emerging themes, including violence, youth culture, and film festivals. The book includes reviews of ten films released between 2001 and 2012 by directors who are both established (Maryse Sistach, Carlo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Combining insightful readings of key films with social science approaches to issues of production, distribution, exhibition and audience response, Paul Julian Smith’s Mexican Screen Fiction ventures beyond the boundaries of traditional film studies to offer a probing and wide ranging study of Mexico’s dynamic audiovisual sector.''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKathleen Vernon, Stony Brook University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e''With his latest book, Paul Julian Smith not only offers valuable insights into contemporary Mexican screen fiction, bringing together both film and TV, which are located in their industrial, critical, cultural and historical contexts. Researched and written with evident pleasure, he provides us with an innovative paradigm for thinking about screen media in the twenty-first century.''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrea Noble, Durham University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mexican Screen Fiction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJump Cut 1: Y tu mamá también 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I SETTING SCENES 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Revising Mexican Cinema 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Following Festivals 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJump Cut 2: Perfume de violetas, Frida 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II AUTEURS AND GENRES 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Julián Hernández’s \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Clouds of Peace Encircle the Sky, Love, Your Being Love Will Never End\u003c\/i\u003e 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Case Study in Genre and Nationality: Guillermo del Toro’s \u003ci\u003ePan’s Labyrinth\u003c\/i\u003e 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJump Cut 3: \u003ci\u003e21 Grams, Battle in Heaven, KM 31\u003c\/i\u003e 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III MARGINAL SUBJECTS 87\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Youth Culture in Mexico: \u003ci\u003eRebel, I’m Gonna Explode\u003c\/i\u003e 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Lady Killers in TV Fiction: \u003ci\u003eWomen Murderers, The Aparicio Women\u003c\/i\u003e 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJump Cut 4: \u003ci\u003eWe Are What We Are, Leap Year\u003c\/i\u003e 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV TALES OF INSECURITY 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Film Fictions of Violence: \u003ci\u003eHell, Saving Private\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePérez, Miss Bala\u003c\/i\u003e 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 TV Histories of Violence: \u003ci\u003eIn the Sewers, Cries of Death and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJump Cut 5: \u003ci\u003eThe Prize, Windows to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Between Cinema and Television 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Interviews with Five Media Professionals\u003cbr\u003e (Jesús Mario Lozano, Daniela Michel, Alejandro Ramírez, Roberto Fiesco, Leticia López Margalli) 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 266\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404425797975,"sku":"9780745680798","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745680798.jpg?v=1730486422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mexican-screen-fiction-9780745680798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}