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Review: Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence , by Niamh Thornton

2022; University of California Press; Volume: 38; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.200

1533-8320

Mónica García Blizzard,

Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Book Review| February 01 2022 Review: Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence, by Niamh Thornton Niamh Thornton. Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence. Albany: SUNY Press, 2020. 226 pp. Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard Emory University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2022) 38 (1): 200–203. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.200 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mónica García Blizzard; Review: Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence, by Niamh Thornton. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 1 February 2022; 38 (1): 200–203. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2022.38.1.200 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentMexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Search Building upon previous scholarship about Mexican cinema that has re-evaluated low-value film (Monsiváis 2000; Sánchez Prado 2015; Smith 2014; and Ruétalo and Tierney 2011), this book approaches the audiovisual representation of violence in Mexico as a phenomenon bound up in the issue of taste. Turning her attention specifically to the screening of the revolution, femicides, and drug-related bloodshed across various contexts of reception, Niamh Thornton offers a multidimensional perspective on the mediation of local violence as projected and consumed within and beyond Mexico itself. Alongside scholars concerned with the ethical implications of representing brutality, such as Jean Franco (2013), Sayak Valencia (2018), and Oswaldo Zavala (2018), this study also considers the extent to which mediations conscientiously intervene and/or exploit real violence, problematizing conventional notions of value as related to audiovisual production.A group of figures whom Thornton terms “tastemakers,” comprised of curators,... You do not currently have access to this content.