Elena Lahr Vivaz: 2 books
Mexican Melodrama
Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In Mexican Melodrama, Elena Lahr-Vivaz explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce the excesses of a nation characterized as a fragmented and fictitious construct. Analyzing big hits and quiet successes of both Golden Age and...
Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics...