The Lost Cinema of Mexico
From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros
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The Lost Cinema of Mexico
From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros
About this book
The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation’s earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.
This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico’s modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and Chili Westerns.
Redefining a time usually seen as a cinematic “crisis,” this volume offers a new model of the film auteur shaped by productive tension between highbrow aesthetics, industry shortages, and national audiences. It also traces connections from these Mexican films to Latinx, Latin American, and Hollywood cinema at large.
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Contributors: Brian Price | Carolyn Fornoff | David S. Dalton | Christopher B. Conway | Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou | Ignacio Sánchez Prado | Dolores Tierney | Dr. Olivia Cosentino
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: El Santo versus the Cineteca Nacional de México; Rethinking the Lost Cinema of Mexico
- 1. I Know It’s Only Rock and Roll, but I Like It: Popular Music and the Advent of the Churro
- 2. On Virgins, Malinches, and Chicas Modernas: The Star Power of Lorena Velázquez in Lucha Libre Cinema
- 3. The Mexican Superochero Moment: Countercultural Nations and Utopian Assemblages in Small Format
- 4. The Mexican Chili Western and Crisis Masculinity
- 5. Blackness and Racial Melodrama in 1970s Mexican Cinema
- 6. Un cine familiar: Recovering the 1980s Mexican Family Film
- 7. Felipe Cazals: The Question of the Film Auteur in the Age of Cinematic Crisis
- 8. Finding the Lost Cinema of Mexico: Critical Recovery, Rescue, and Reconceptualization
- List of Contributors
- Index