Cinemachismo Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film

Name: Cinemachismo Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film
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ISBN: 9780292712973

ISBN-10: 0292712979

ISBN-13: 9780292712973

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sergio de la Mora

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After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men were held out as desired and/or abject models not only in governmental rhetoric and propaganda, but also in literature and popular culture, particularly in the cinema. Indeed, cinema provided an especially effective staging ground for the construction of a gendered and sexualized national identity.In this book, Sergio de la Mora offers the first extended analysis of how Mexican cinema has represented…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Sergio de la Mora is Assistant Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.



Preface


How I Too Came to Love Pedro Infante


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Macho Nation?



""Midnight Virgin"": Melodramas of Prostitution in Literature and Film



Pedro Infante Unveiled: Masculinities in the Mexican ""Buddy Movie""



The Last Dance: (Homo)Sexuality and Representation in Arturo Ripstein'sEl lugar sin lfmitesand theFichera Subgenre



Mexico's Third-Wave New Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Film


Epilogue. Mexican Cinema Is Dead! Long Live M