New Approaches to Transnational Mexican Cinema

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Mexican cinema has historically been studied as a matter of the national, and in relation to the construction of social identities and affects In recent years, however, there has been a significant change in emphasis, dealing with the many transnational aesthetic and institutional networks that have operated in Mexican cinema from the get-go. This panel seeks to intervene in new debates, by theorizing and analyzing a corpus of transnational Mexican films. The panel is concerned with Mexico/US and Mexico/Central American contributions related to migration, the use of genres such as horror and the Western to build transnational connections and the ways in which transnational spaces of auteurism operate vis-à-vis Mexican film. Taken together, the papers seek to provide a landscape of Mexican transnational cinema and the new focuses in their study, both in historical material and in contemporary production.

Sub Track

• Film Studies

Chair

• Carolina Rueda, University of Oklahoma

Individual Presentations

• Transnational Intellectuals and Cinematic Mexico (“in revolution”), from the Great Depression to the Cold War. - Adela E Pineda-Franco, Boston University

• Juan López Moctezuma: Mexican Horror’s Transnational Style - Ignacio M Sánchez Prado, Washington University/St. Louis

• La jaula de oro/The Golden Dream: a call for the right to have rights. - Deborah A Shaw, University of Portsmouth

• Ciudadano Cuarón: Transnational Auteurism and Mexican Cinema - Jeffrey J Middents, American University

• Desierto’s Menace at the Border Meets the Everlasting Sleep Dealer - Carolina Rueda, University of Oklahoma