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Author Thornton, Niamh, author.

Title Tastemakers and tastemaking : Mexico and curated screen violence / Niamh Thornton.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Series SUNY series in Latin American cinema
SUNY series in Latin American cinema.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Summary "Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Questions of taste: classification, value, legitimation, and Distinction -- Cultural institutions and taste formation: Nelson Carro and the Cineteca in 2010 -- Commonplace and routine: Amat Escalante's extreme realism in Los bastardos (2008) and Heli (2013) -- Re-versioning and thick contexts: the cinematic adaptations of Los de abajo -- Bodily excess and containment: Bordertown (Gregory Nava, 2006) and The Virgin of Juarez (Kevin James Dobson, 2006) -- Curating cruelty and criminality: the radical mediation of Kate del Castillo -- Conclusion.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Motion pictures -- Mexico -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Television -- Aesthetics.
Curatorship -- Philosophy.
Television programs -- Mexico -- History.
Violence in motion pictures.
Violence on television.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
Television -- Aesthetics
Television programs
Violence in motion pictures
Violence on television
Mexico
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Thornton, Niamh. Tastemakers and tastemaking. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] 9781438481135 (DLC) 2020023295 (OCoLC)1154511277
ISBN 1438481144 (electronic book)
9781438481142 (electronic bk.)
9781438481135 hardcover