Papers by Sergio de la Mora
The Films of Arturo Ripstein, 2019
This article explores questions of representation and reception of Arturo Ripstein’s biopic La re... more This article explores questions of representation and reception of Arturo Ripstein’s biopic La reina de la noche/The Queen of the Night (1994), loosely based on the life of ranchera music performer Lucha Reyes. Reyes created the sound of ranchera singing as we understand it today. Her career is examined in light of the film’s mixed reception, notably the unfavorable reception in Mexico due to the irreverent treatment of this national icon. This divisive representation enables an analysis of how her non-conformist agency rubbed uneasily against dominant society. However, the focus on Reyes as a tragic and abject victim and her rendering as a queer icon register the multiple layers of ambiguity that made the film so problematic for audiences and critics.
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Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America, 2009
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Film Quarterly, 1999
n April 1997 Arturo Ripstein, Mexico's most renowned film director, confronted Eresto Zedillo... more n April 1997 Arturo Ripstein, Mexico's most renowned film director, confronted Eresto Zedillo in the Mexican president's first meeting with the statesupported film community since he took office in December 1994. On behalf of IMCINE (the state-funded Mexican Film Institute created in 1983) and its primary beneficiaries and administrators, Ripstein appealed to the president: "A country without film is a sad country." This less than positive view of Mexico today is also held by other major players in that country's artfilm world, who are convinced, as is Ripstein, that without state subsidies the national art cinema would not
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Jump Cut, 2000
Video artist Ximena Cuevas is the bomb! A poet of everyday life, she is a master of self-portrait... more Video artist Ximena Cuevas is the bomb! A poet of everyday life, she is a master of self-portraits, a perpetual explorer of lies under the layers of the performer's artifice. Cuevas is also the fairy godmother of a new melodrama, as excessive as that of the classic Mexican ...
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Cine-Estudiantil Film Festival, March, 1995
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Film Quarterly, 2019
Sergio de la Mora reviews Roma's reception in Mexico and reflects upon the film's intimat... more Sergio de la Mora reviews Roma's reception in Mexico and reflects upon the film's intimate relationship with the nation's political history. Situating Roma with the broader trend in Latin American cinema for films that explore servant-employer relations, he examines how Roma visualizes the ways in which Indigenous domestic and intimate labor has been historically racialized and gendered in Mexico. He discusses the controversy surrounding Cleo's voice and agency in the film along with the aesthetic debates prompted by Cuarón's decision to film in black and white.
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Preface. How I Too Came to Love Pedro Infante Acknowledgments Introduction. Macho Nation? Chapter... more Preface. How I Too Came to Love Pedro Infante Acknowledgments Introduction. Macho Nation? Chapter One. "Midnight Virgin": Melodramas of Prostitution in Literature and Film Chapter Two. Pedro Infante Unveiled: Masculinities in the Mexican "Buddy Movie" Chapter Three. The Last Dance: (Homo)Sexuality and Representation in Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin limites and the Fichera Subgenre Chapter Four. Mexico's Third-Wave New Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Film Epilogue. Mexican Cinema Is Dead! Long Live Mexican Cinema! Notes Works Consulted Index
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Journal of Film and Video, 1993
This essay attempts to bridge my interests in Mexican cinema with an effort to locate my spectato... more This essay attempts to bridge my interests in Mexican cinema with an effort to locate my spectator position as a homosexual Mexican male in relation to the predomi nant image of male homosexuality pro duced by that film industry. Part film his tory, part film analysis, part gender/ sexuality ...
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Cine-Estudiantil Film Festival, March, 1995
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Feminist Formations, 2016
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Archivos De La Filmoteca Revista De Estudios Historicos Sobre La Imagen, 1999
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...
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