From Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien, this books delves into the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the 'Golden Age' of the 1930s and 1940s and the 'nuevo cine' of the 1960s, to the renaissance in Mexican cinema in the 1990s.
Individual chapters discuss:
1. Remaking Mexican Cinema 2. The Mexican Revolution as Moving Memory 3. On, Off and Around the Screens of the Mexican Cinema 4. Melodrama, Masculinity and the Politics of Space 5. On the Road to Seeing the Other through Film: From Y tu mamá también to ¡Que viva México! and back again 6. The Politics and Erotics of Border Culture in the Mexican Cinema