Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain

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SUNY Press, 2003 M10 9 - 201 páginas
Popular culture in the 1990s, especially cinema, can be considered a showcase for the accumulated hopes and fears of the twentieth century. From the promise of material goods to the profusion of despair, from devastating tragedy to exaggerated rapture, a dizzying array of images assaults the eye. Drawing on recent films from Mexico and Spain, Bored to Distraction navigates this visual terrain, from melodrama to horror, looking for what, if anything, might be excessive enough to rouse us from our comfortable everyday routines.
 

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1 The look of the
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Danzón and
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Throwing Politics to the Dogs
83
From Archibaldo de la Cruz
109
1 Víctor Liberto Rabal visits his mothers grave
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Waiting for Satan
135
1 Father Angel Berriartúa Alex Angulo
147
2 Classmates Angela Ana Torrent and Chema
153
4 Angela Ana Torrent
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Claudia Schaefer is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and the author of Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture and Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico.

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