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Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Mexican, Amores Perros, World Cinema, A Level, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies, Analysis
Key Texts Amores Perros (Love’s A Bitch) 2000 Y Tu Mama También (And Your Mother Too) 2001 Compare some of the stylistic features in the films you have studied discussing how far they make for a distinctive kind of cinema. The study of so-called World Cinema tends to focus on common themes e.g. power, poverty and conflict, social class, gender representation et al within the confines of what has to be described as Hollywood Hegemony. Ironically ‘international film…
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Categories: EDUQAS A2, EDUQAS A Level, Mexican, World Cinema, A Level, Films & Case Studies, Genres & Case Studies
Background: The Beginnings To fully comprehend any one period in a country’s cinema, there needs to be some contextualisation. Early Mexican filmmakers profited from the turbulent times the country faced at the turn of the century. The civil war was the subject of many silent films; several significant battles were documented on camera. As the country began to stabilize during the 1930s, filmmakers had a myriad of social issues to choose from as themes for their films. However, they…
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