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Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age , by Mónica García Blizzard

2023; University of California Press; Volume: 39; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/msem.2023.39.3.475

1533-8320

Julia R. Brown,

Media Studies and Communication

Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, by Mónica García Blizzard Mónica García Blizzard. The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age. SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema. Albany: SUNY Press, 2022. 326 pp. Julia R. Brown Julia R. Brown Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2023) 39 (3): 475–477. https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2023.39.3.475 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Julia R. Brown; Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, by Mónica García Blizzard. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 1 November 2023; 39 (3): 475–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2023.39.3.475 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 The last fifteen years have yielded a veritable boom of scholarship on Mexican cinema. This profusion of scholarly works engages canonical and globally acclaimed films available on DVD, streaming platforms, or YouTube, as well as those that are available for screening only at one or two physical locations in the world. Films of this latter category—non-circulating and often of an analog era—present a particular challenge for Mexican-cinema scholarship and spectatorship. One must often make a dedicated visit to Mexican film archives for a screening. Considering the persisting challenges for scholarship on Mexican cinema—especially on those films of the predigital era—Mónica García Blizzard’s The White Indians of Mexican Cinema constitutes a major contribution to scholarship on the subject. Part of the raison d’être of scholarship concerning Mexican cinema is, of course, to demonstrate to scholars across disciplines and hemispheres that the films are critically important to any discussion of twentieth- and... You do not currently have access to this content.