Table of Contents: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema :

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	García Blizzard, Mónica.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	SUNY Series in Latin American Cinema Series
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Persistent Privilege of Whiteness in Mexico
Indigenista Visual Production and Cultural Anxiety
Contextualizing Race and Gender On-screen
Colonizing Desire
Colonizing Subjectivity
Whiteness, Melodrama, and Hegemony
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
Chapter 1 Idealized Pre-Columbian Womanhood
Zítari (1931)
Chilam Balam (1957)
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Taming the Tehuana
Nineteenthand Early Twentieth-Century Representations of the Tehuana in Mexico
La Zandunga (1938)
Tierra de pasiones (1943)
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Revolutionary Politics, Colonized Aesthetics
La india bonita (1938)
El indio (1939)
María Candelaria (1944)
Maclovia (1948)
Looking Beyond Industrial Representation: Janitzio (1935) and "La potranca" (Raíces, 1955) as Counterexamples
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Reframing Mestizaje: White Mayans, Indigenous Spirituality, and Cenote Suicides
La noche de los mayas (1939)
Deseada (1951)
Conclusion
Chapter 5 María Isabel: A White Indita for Modern Mexico
María Isabel (1967)
El amor de María Isabel (1970)
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Indios, Desire, and the White Mexican Woman
Tribu (1935)
Lola Casanova (1949)
Tizoc (Amor indio) (1957)
El violetero (1960)
Beyond the Golden Age
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.