Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo

To found the nation as a political speech implied spreading cinema as a cultural phenomenon in different means. The ideas that explained and illustrated the meaning of the Mexican nation were widely known through radio and cinema during last century. The cinema was particularly used to collaborate c...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:feda8804a7874265b6ef3f017f8a35e82021-12-02T10:32:32ZConstrucción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.65708https://doaj.org/article/feda8804a7874265b6ef3f017f8a35e82013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/65708https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252To found the nation as a political speech implied spreading cinema as a cultural phenomenon in different means. The ideas that explained and illustrated the meaning of the Mexican nation were widely known through radio and cinema during last century. The cinema was particularly used to collaborate creating a national identity. This was possible because, it appeared a group of symbolic repertoires in different movies that served for “to look and to recognize to the nation”, among other narrative resources, especially in the so called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Inside this symbolic universe, those symbols identified as the foundational signs of the homeland appeared, usually in a exalted way thematically and in cinematographic language. However, in a politically changing time as these days, the uses of the symbolic repertoires of the nation have found also other uses, where its privileged situation stopped being the same, even to the degree of seeing their own critique. That happens in the Mexican contemporary cinema’s expression, and we will try to explain it in the present essay.Carlos García BenítezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlecinemanationidentitysymbolsfilmic aesthetics.AnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2013)
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language EN
FR
PT
topic cinema
nation
identity
symbols
filmic aesthetics.
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle cinema
nation
identity
symbols
filmic aesthetics.
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Carlos García Benítez
Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
description To found the nation as a political speech implied spreading cinema as a cultural phenomenon in different means. The ideas that explained and illustrated the meaning of the Mexican nation were widely known through radio and cinema during last century. The cinema was particularly used to collaborate creating a national identity. This was possible because, it appeared a group of symbolic repertoires in different movies that served for “to look and to recognize to the nation”, among other narrative resources, especially in the so called Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Inside this symbolic universe, those symbols identified as the foundational signs of the homeland appeared, usually in a exalted way thematically and in cinematographic language. However, in a politically changing time as these days, the uses of the symbolic repertoires of the nation have found also other uses, where its privileged situation stopped being the same, even to the degree of seeing their own critique. That happens in the Mexican contemporary cinema’s expression, and we will try to explain it in the present essay.
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title Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
title_short Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
title_full Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
title_fullStr Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
title_full_unstemmed Construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
title_sort construcción, entronización y degradación de los símbolos de la identidad nacional en el cine mexicano contemporáneo
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
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