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Familia y cine mexicano en el marco del neoliberalismo. Estudio critico de Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele y Temporada de patos

Gomez-Gomez, Carmen Elisa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550808

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
As in other national cinemas, Mexican cinema has used the theme of the family as the basis for many of its films, though mainly as a way of developing the central conflict of the narrative. Unlike other national cinemas, the trope of the family was promoted by the state as a means through which it strove to give itself legitimacy. Because of the societal conflicts left behind by the Mexican Revolution, the State associated the nuclear family simile with the illusion of national unity that centered on the patriarchy. The media of the time willingly went along with the unwritten precept, and for decades the ideal of national unity was known as ‘la Gran Familia Mexicana’, that is, The Great Mexican Family. Many of the films produced during the Mexican Golden Age – La Epoca de Oro – advanced images of the ideal family members: strict fathers, submissive mothers and obedient children that reflected an idealized prevailing dominant order. However, these archetypes were gradually contested by other models and arrangements of the Mexican family as depicted in film, overlapping with the socio economical process of the neoliberal governments (starting in 1982 to the present). The films Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele and Temporada de patos, produced between 2000 to 2004 reveal a new discourse in which the family is portrayed in crisis, highlighting the distressed father figure, which in many cases is absent. The paradigm serves as an allegory of the loss of legitimacy of the Mexican State in the last two decades. In the last twenty years, the neoliberal system has released the government of some of its responsibilities to society such as, providing a minimum infrastructure and an environment well-being for its citizens and their social progress. The neoliberal model has proven to be problematic; it has increased the levels of poverty and social inequality in Mexico. The corpus of films studied in this dissertation examine how the families in the stories mirror the decadence of the patriarchal State, as the Revolutionary Institutional Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI) that held power for seventy years led the country to its demise. With the arrival of Vicente Fox, from the opposing National Action Party (Partido de Accion Nacional) to the presidency, the ideology within some of the mentioned films proposes a new family identity and new perspectives on the prototype of the Mexican family, acknowledging as well the advent of unexplored, though no less devastating, conflicts.
Ignacio Corona, PhD (Advisor)
Richard A. Gordon, PhD (Committee Member)
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar, PhD (Committee Member)
Soledad Fernandez, PhD (Committee Member)
338 p.
Motion Pictures
Mexican cinema; motion-pictures family; neoliberalism in Mexico; State and ideology; Latin-American Cultural Studies; Latin-American Film Studies; Mecanica nacional; Los Caifanes; Por la libre; Juan Carlos de Llaca; Perfume de violetas; Maryse Sistach; Am

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  • Gomez-Gomez, C. E. (2009). Familia y cine mexicano en el marco del neoliberalismo. Estudio critico de Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele y Temporada de patos [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550808

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  • Gomez-Gomez, Carmen. Familia y cine mexicano en el marco del neoliberalismo. Estudio critico de Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele y Temporada de patos. 2009. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550808.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gomez-Gomez, Carmen. "Familia y cine mexicano en el marco del neoliberalismo. Estudio critico de Por la libre, Perfume de violetas, Amar te duele y Temporada de patos." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253550808

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