The china and the ranchero typecasting Mexicanness from nineteenth-century costumbrismo to classical Mexican cinema
The china and the ranchero: typecasting Mexicanness from nineteenth-century costumbrismo to classical Mexican cinema

This article traces the historical background of social typecasting in Mexico, i.e., the historical usage of social types to represent what is thought to be this country’s socio-cultural identity. It argues that nineteenth-century local "costumbrista" artists originally created a set of so...

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1. Verfasser: Pillado, Miguel Angel 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [2021]
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1820-1920
Costumbrismo
Nationalbewusstsein
Kunst
Kunstsoziologie
Mexiko
Online-Zugang:DE-Y3
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Zusammenfassung:This article traces the historical background of social typecasting in Mexico, i.e., the historical usage of social types to represent what is thought to be this country’s socio-cultural identity. It argues that nineteenth-century local "costumbrista" artists originally created a set of social types as a means of promoting a sense of national collective distinctiveness. It shows how these artists benefited from global and local transformations of the modes of production and circulation of entertainment and knowledge to install in the collective imaginary the idea of a homogeneous local identity and culture despite evident racial and social differences. I analyze in particular two social types—the ranchero and the china - from the collection Los mexicanos pintados por sí mismos, one of the most important achievements of Mexican costumbrismo. In doing so, I demonstrate how the costumbrista artistic project was similar to that of the Mexican filmmakers of the first decades of the twentieth century in terms of circumstances of origin and political-ideological agenda. In the process, I also reveal the extent to which Mexican costumbrista artists influenced modern perspectives of ethnic and cultural identity in Mexico. And more importantly, I show how a dominant class of intellectuals has attempted, at different times in the history of Mexico, to structure a social imaginary that models national identity based on an arbitrary selection of "typically Mexican" socio-cultural features.
Beschreibung:Illustration
ISBN:978-3-8394-5212-7

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