Evaluating a broad selection of Mexican films produced from the early 1990s to the present, this study examines how production methods, audience demographics, and aesthetic approaches have changed throughout the past two decades and how these changes relate to the country's transitions to a democratic political system and a free-market economy.

Autorentext
Misha MacLaird is an independent writer and film curator specializing in Latin American cinema and audiovisual policy. She received a PhD from Tulane University, USA and has taught courses on Latin American cinema at the University of California, Davis. A native of Oakland, California, she currently resides in Mexico City.

Inhalt
Una época fatal: An Era of Fatality, Tragic Endings, and New Beginnings PART I: THE POLITICS OF TRANSITION 1. Industry and Policy: Privatizing a National Cinema 2. Audiences and Markets: On Spectatorship and Citizenship 3. Censorship and Sensationalism: Neotremendismo autoritario PART II: THE AESTHETICS OF TRANSITION 4. Hyperrealism and Violence: Fatal Aesthetics 5. Independence and Innovation: Indie Film and the Youth Market 6. Coproduction and Transnationalism: National Culture in a Global Marketplace 7. Between Tragedy and Farce: Mexico and Its Cinema Relive History