Dossier: New Approaches to Mexican Cinema
Edited by Adela Pineda Franco (The University of Texas, Austin)
The four contributions included in this dossier engage with theoretical approaches that have challenged the suitability of the national as the organizing principle in the study of cultures. Thomas Matusiak and Eduardo Tormos Bigles revisit the trans-national and intra-national dimension of independent and experimental cinema during the 1960s and 1970s through case studies of the films of Teo Hernández and Alfredo Joskowicz. Olivia Cosentino explores the affective role of the critic spectator by analyzing the non-fiction film Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016). Carolyn Fornoff challenges the idea of national cinema for the case of Mexico through a radical engagement with ecocriticism and energy studies.
The dossier consists of:
Editor’s introduction: New approaches to Mexican cinema
ADELA PINEDA FRANCO
A Jaguar in Paris: Teo Hernández’s shamanic cinema
THOMAS MATUSIAK
Alfredo Joskowicz: Corporeal abjection and counterculture
in independent Mexican cinema after 1968
EDGARDO F. TORMOS BIGLES
Writing from the gut: Embodied spectatorship and
violence in contemporary Mexican cinema
OLIVIA COSENTINO
Mexican cinema as petrocinema
CAROLYN FORNOFF