Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Retheorizing Mexican Film History 1
5. Chapter 2. Every Picture Tells a Story: José Guadalupe Posada’s Protocinematic Graphic Art 13
6. Chapter 3. Enrique Rosas’s El automóvil gris (1919) and the Dawning of Modern Mexican Cinema 33
7. Chapter 4. The Adoption of the Hollywood Style and the Transition to Sound 53
8. Chapter 5. Mexican Cinema Comes of Age: Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s 63
9. Chapter 6. The Cinematic Invention of Mexico: The Poetics and Politics of the Fernández Unit Style 91
10. Chapter 7. Luis Buñuel in Mexico 133
11. Chapter 8. Three Classical Mexican Cinema Genre Films 173
12. Chapter 9. Conclusion: What Happened to the Classical Mexican Cinema? 201
13. Notes 207
14. Index 225