Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence

Tastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments: the decade-long centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010; the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s; and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created, mediated, selected, or categorized by tastemakers, through the strategic choices made by institutions, filmmakers, actors, and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between”good”� and”bad”� taste, Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both”high”� and”low”� media, including film cycles and festivals, adaptations of Mariano Azuela’s 1915 novel, Los de Abajo, Amat Escalante’s hyperrealist art films, and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela, La reina del sur. Making extensive use of videographic criticism, Thornton pays particularly close attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, both on and off screen. Additional ISBNs1438481136, 1438481128, 9781438481135, 9781438481128Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence is written by Niamh Thornton and published by Suny Press. ISBNs for Tastemakers and Tastemaking are 9781438481142, 1438481144 and the print ISBNs are 9781438481135, 1438481136. Additional ISBNs include 1438481136, 1438481128, 9781438481135, 9781438481128.