This book is an authoritative account of the career of Emilio Fernández, (1906-1986), one of Mexico's and Latin America's most successful and significant directors. It challenges assumptions about classical Mexican cinema and offers new, detailed textual analyses of Fernández' most significant films (Enamorada, Rio Escondido, María Candelaria).

Dolores Tierney is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex

Introduction
1. 'Poor reception' and the popular in classical Mexican cinema
2. 'El Indio' Fernández, Mexico's marginalized golden boy and national auteur
3. Calendar María - hybridity, indigenismo and the discourse of whitening
4. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Enamorada
5. Gender, sexuality and the Revolution in Salón México, Las abandonadas and Víctimas del pecado
6. Progress, modernity and Fernández' 'anti-modernist utopia': Río Escondido
Epilogue: Mexican Cinema and Emilio Fernández post the Golden Age - From Golden Boy to 'the man in black'
Filmography