Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas Dr Tingting Wu

Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas Dr Tingting WuExplores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema. Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas looks at representation and rebellion in times of national uncertainty. Moving from mid century Mexican cinema to recent films staged in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Susan Dever analyzes melodrama's double function as a genre and as a sensibility, revealing coincidences between movie morals and political pieties in the

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Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body

The book features a stimulating analysis of how body and mind function harmoniously

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but neglected many important figures and offered largely uncritical presentations