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A Mexican Nouvelle Vague:
The Logic of New Waves under
Globalization
by:Jeff Menne
Melissa Buishas
Brenetta Cheeks
Chris Casey
À bout de souffle-Jean Luc Godard
Hostility between nation-state and
national culture
Protagonist acts in constant tension of
the law
Needs money (culture) but it is in jail (state)
New Wave
in À bout de souffle Concerned with relationship between
resources of nation into those of culture and
state
Culture (film production) can only be sustained
with financing (state)
Culture can impact state
Historical Context
Youth movements in Europe called for
national reform
Use cinema as a forum
Culture can impinge on politics
New Wave
Cineastes differ from prevalent cinema in culture in politics
assert new generations claim to share of state power
Not concerned in box office success or critics
But want people to discuss
Assumes nation is congruent to nations film industry
New wave without a
Country?
Dogme95
Danish movement started by Lars Von
Triers
Based on following a set of rules
Not a shared national concern
Everyone followed these rule regardless
of nationality
First ten include: French, Korean,
Argentine, and US efforts
Second New Wave
Doesn’t rely on state
Don’t see selves as counter
Nation can be detached from state
3 films revived Mexican industry
Amores perros- Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2000
Y tu mamá también- Alfonso Cuarón, 2001
El crimen del Padre Amero- Carlso Carrera, 2002
Amores perros &The
Global Actor New direction for Mexican cinema
Popular
Pull from international influences an selective
national
Declare the financial support from before
obsolete
Popular
Against ideas of what cinema should be
Not like telenovelas
Make popular not synonymous with inferior quality
Advanced perspective on social class under global capitalism
Makes different from state financed cinema (telenovlas)
Selective National
and International Influence
Influences from popular art directors
John Cassavete, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai
Thanks Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Del Toro
Pays homage to Los olvidados
Luis Buñuel’s most celebrated films
Old ways Obsolete
Throw away cinema de papá
Refuse the relations of production based in state
bureaucracy
Filmmaker in private sector rather being indentured to
the state
El crimen del Padre Amaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=eella0Yo1I4
El crimen del Padre Amaro
Padre Amaro seduces a woman, she becomes pregnant, and she dies during her back alley abortion…cover-up!
Literal Story- expose’ of church hypocrisy
Figural Story- the State’s hand in cinema
Notable Protesters:
Catholic League
Antiabortion groups
Soldiers of Christ for
the Twenty-first Century
(Only helped
publicize the film)
$-$-$i $enor!
CONTROVERSY! DIOS MIO!
Criticism or Conflicted Celebration
of The Institution?
Gonzales Inarritu• 21 Grams (2003)
• Babel (2006)
• HP and the P of A (2004)
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GLOBALIZATIN
Not cultural homogenization
Less focus on Hollywood
The "Three Amigos":
Alejandro González Iñárritu,
Guillermo Del Toro and
Alfonso Cuarón at the 2007
Academy Awards.
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