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the tensions between Government discourses of progress and modernity and Río Escondido’s representation of Mexico. At the same time, this chapter takes issue with the idea that this film (along with all Fernández’ films) represents an ‘antimodernist utopia’ antithetical to progress and modernity, and suggests instead that it is firmly rooted in the contemporary moment (and problems) of its
From 1943 until 1950, Emilio Fernández was regarded as one of the foremost purveyors of 'Mexicanness,' as one of the most important filmmakers of the Mexican film industry. This book explores the contradictions of post-Revolutionary representation as manifested in Fernández' canonical 1940s films: María Candelaria, Víctimas del pecado, Las abandonadas, La perla, Enamorada, Río Escondido, Maclovia and Salón Mexico. It examines transnational influences that shaped Fernández' work. The book acknowledges how the events of the Mexican revolution impacted on the country's film industry and the ideological development of nationalism. It takes note of current tendencies in film studies and postcolonial theory to look for the excesses, instabilities and incoherencies in texts, which challenge such totalizing projects of hegemony or cultural reification as 'cultural nationalism' or ' mexicanidad.' The book looks at how classical Mexican cinema has been studied, surveying the US studies of classical Mexican cinema which diverge from Mexican analyses by making space for the 'other' through genre and textual analyses. Fernández's Golden Age lasted for seven years, 1943-1950. The book also examines how the concept of hybridity mediates the post-Revolutionary discourse of indigenismo (indigenism) in its cinematic form. It looks specifically at how malinchismo, which is also figured as a 'positive, valorisation of whiteness,' threatens the 'purity' of an essential Mexican in María Candelaria, Emilio Fernández's most famous indigenist film. Emilio Fernandez's Enamorada deals with the Revolution's renegotiation of gender identity.
’s perceived consonance with conservative, Government ideology: specifically the tensions between Government discourses of progress and modernity and the film’s representation of an underdeveloped Mexico. At the same time, the chapter challenges the idea that this film (along with all Fernández’ films) represent an ‘antimodernist utopia’ and suggests instead that it is firmly rooted in the contemporary moment (and problems) of its