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Contextos nacionales y transnacionales: la nueva reencarnación del melodrama mexicano en la película Bella (2006, Alejandro Monteverde)

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, Spanish.
The present study analyzes Mexican film director Alejandro Monteverde’s first feature film Bella (2006) and its relationship to classic Mexican cinema, particularly to the genre of the family melodrama. When analyzed in this context, the themes that emerge in the film- emotional excess, family unity, the centrality of the mother figure, the privileging of rural over urban spaces, the importance of Catholicism and conventional gender roles- become more than just melodramatic tropes, but rather represent an attempt on the part of the filmmakers to renegotiate the terms of a Mexican national identity consolidated during the 1930s and 1940s. Bella rearticulates the values and concerns of traditional Mexican culture within a modern, transnational space, developing a hybrid aesthetic that encompasses both the traditional and the modern, the national and the transnational. In both its aesthetic and its thematic content, the film ultimately assures the triumph of traditional notions of “mexicanidad”.
Kerry Hegarty, PhD (Advisor)
Jose Dominguez Burdalo, PhD (Committee Member)
Darcy Donahue, PhD (Committee Member)
46 p.

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  • Burton, M. A. (2012). Contextos nacionales y transnacionales: la nueva reencarnación del melodrama mexicano en la película Bella (2006, Alejandro Monteverde) [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1334192023

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Burton, Mary. Contextos nacionales y transnacionales: la nueva reencarnación del melodrama mexicano en la película Bella (2006, Alejandro Monteverde). 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1334192023.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Burton, Mary. "Contextos nacionales y transnacionales: la nueva reencarnación del melodrama mexicano en la película Bella (2006, Alejandro Monteverde)." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1334192023

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)