Tastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments: the decade-long centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010; the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s; and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created, mediated, selected, or categorized by tastemakers, through the strategic choices made by institutions, filmmakers, actors, and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ taste, Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both ‘high’ and ‘low’ media, including film cycles and festivals, adaptations of Mariano Azuela’s 1915 novel,
Los de Abajo, Amat Escalante’s hyperrealist art films, and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela,
La reina del sur. Making extensive use of videographic criticism, Thornton pays particularly close attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, both on and off screen.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Questions of Taste, Violence, and Gender
1. Cultural Institutions and Gendered Taste Formation: Nelson Carro and the Cineteca Nacional in 2010
2. Commonplace and Routine: Amat Escalante’s Extreme Realism in
Los bastardos (2008) and
Heli (2013)
3. Reversioning and Thick Contexts: The Cinematic Adaptations of
Los de abajo
4. Bodily Excess and Containment:
Bordertown (Gregory Nava, 2006) and
The Virgin of Juarez (Kevin James Dobson, 2006)
5. Curating Cruelty and Criminality: The Radical Mediation of Kate del Castillo
Conclusion: Ethical Reflections on Legitimation and Taste
Filmography
References
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Niamh Thornton is a Reader in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the author and editor of several books, including i Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film/i and i International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place (coedited with Catherine Leen).
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