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Comedia ranchera: A Reactionary Genre of Mexican Cinema
Mario Županović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1616-1234
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The paper focuses on the comedia ranchera genre of Mexican cinema, and especially two important films: On the Big Ranch and Two Types
of Care. The genre is analyzed in view of its cultural, political and
aesthetic significance in the post-revolutionary Mexico of the 1930s
and 1950s, and through its reactionary and subversive features regarding the prevailing indigenismo art and culture of Mexico. Analysis of shot by shot sequences and the iconography of frames reveals that comedia ranchera is a distinctive genre of Mexican cinema, which can be seen as a reactionary ideological apparatus that echoes porfirismo and the old pre-revolutionary regime. The subversive potential of comedia
ranchera is hidden cleverly beneath its stereotypical plots and stock
characters, and particularly beneath the omnipresent theme of the love
triangle. Comparing comedia ranchera to the Western showcases the
main difference between heroes of the Western frontier and the rural,
reactionary protagonists of comedia ranchera. Although aesthetically
different in their visual representation, both On the Big Ranch and Two
Types of Care emanate the reactionary paradigm: a class-based society
marked by paternalism and Catholic conservatism.
Ključne riječi
indigenismo; comedia ranchera; charro; reactionary; class; ideology; porfirismo
Hrčak ID:
184227
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Datum izdavanja:
6.7.2017.
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