EMILIO FERNÁNDEZ

Emilio Fernandez: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernandez (1904-1986) the most successful director of classical Mexican Cinema, famed with creating films that embody a loosely defined Mexican school of filmmaki ng. However, rather than offer an auteurist study this book interrogates the construction of Fernandez as both a national and nation alist auteur (including racial and gender aspects e.g. as macho mexicano and indio). It also challenges auteurist readings of the fi lms them...[Read more]