Un Distinto Amanecer (Julio Bracho 1943) para la nación mexicana

Ricalde, Maricruz Castro

doi:10.1353/rvs.2017.0056

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“…Party leaders instrumentalized the political system in order to tighten their grip on the most relevant social sectors. It is therefore not surprising that one of the earliest Mexican noirs Distinto amanecer (Bracho 1943), focuses on the persecution of a young labor leader striving to uncover the corruption of a governor who is acting in cahoots with foreign investors (Castro Ricalde 2017; García Riera 1998, 136). Clearly, in the eyes of many observers, an undercurrent of corruption, violence, and moral degradation was indelibly mixed with the auspicious possibilities of material progress touted by the new government, positive projections that in many cases came to fruition despite the violence and corruption because the regime was able to sustain annual growth levels of 6 percent or higher for several decades (Kehoe and Meza 2013).…”

Section: Darkness Under Bright City Lightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Fall of Virtuous Men: Mexican Film Noir, and the Crisis of Values in the Postrevolutionary State, 1950–1959

Landeros

2023

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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International reconsideration of Mexican film noir is a recent phenomenon. For decades, Mexican film criticism tended to dismiss the importance of this tradition and even to deny its existence, often citing the presence of melodramatic elements in would-be noir films and the lack of a crime novel tradition for screen adaptations. By comparing two Mexican films to similar American productions and examining the local political and economic conditions of the former, this article argues that Mexican film noir had its own pessimistic viewpoints, which were borrowed from journalism and the illustrated press. These viewpoints were based on existing social ailments and delivered relevant criticism of the institutions, classism, and sexual norms of the postrevolutionary Mexican state of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Section: Darkness Under Bright City Lightsmentioning

confidence: 99%