The Mexican Cinema
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The Mexican cinema has undergone changes over its history in keeping with altered attitudes in Mexican society at large, and one of the areas of change has been in terms of the portrayal of women and gender relations. The so-called "Golden Age" of Mexican cinema was in the 1940s and 1950s, and the attitudes that prevailed during that era shifted as the Mexican cinema moved into what has been called the New Mexican Cinema, which is only part of a larger movement called the New Latin American Cinema. Changed attitudes within the filmmaking community of Mexico, and with Mexican audiences, is only one aspect of the larger social changes taking place throughout Latin America over the past three decades or so, with the greatest movement coming after 1965 and accelerating along with social changes throughout the world in the seventies and eighties. An examination of the changes within Mexico will show the relationship between Mexican cinema and the larger cinematic world of all Latin America. By 1940, the Mexican film industry was well-established and had weathered the shift from silents to sound, and the event that would have the greatest influence on the film industry after 1939 was the coming of war in Europe. Indeed, that event would have a profound effect on all of Latin America. The war was a windfall for Latin American countries because raw materials were in great demand by the Allies to pursue the war effort. When imported manufac
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s highly critical of the Church and of religion, it is also clear that he believes in the power of evil and sees it manifested in this world. Buħuel made more than 20 films in Mexico, most of them in the 1950s, and though Buħuel is the figure most thought of by foreigners when they think of the Mexican film of the period, he in fact had little effect on the Mexican film industry. Only Louis Alcoriza, who collaborated on several Buħuel films, emulated the master's style to any degree. Others in Mexico have taken pride in the fact that Buħuel's style matured in Mexico before he reached his greatest triumphs in Europe.
Buħuel satirized the conventions of Mexican society, conventions related to gender as to everything else. In Susana (1951), the young and beautiful protagonist is punished for sinning by being sent to a reform school. She escapes and is taken in by a rich landowner. This young girl becomes the ultimate femme fatale, using all her wiles to twist every member of the family around her finger and setting one generation against the next. The police come and take her back to prison:
Everybody resumes their fatade of respect for the catechism and for propriety. But the whole point of Buħuel's cautionary tale is to
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