A Mexican Nouvelle Vague:

The Logic of New Waves under

Globalization

by:Jeff Menne

Melissa Buishas

Brenetta Cheeks

Chris Casey

À bout de souffle-Jean Luc Godard

Hostility between nation-state and

national culture

Protagonist acts in constant tension of

the law

Needs money (culture) but it is in jail (state)

New Wave

in À bout de souffle Concerned with relationship between

resources of nation into those of culture and

state

Culture (film production) can only be sustained

with financing (state)

Culture can impact state

Historical Context

Youth movements in Europe called for

national reform

Use cinema as a forum

Culture can impinge on politics

New Wave

Cineastes differ from prevalent cinema in culture in politics

assert new generations claim to share of state power

Not concerned in box office success or critics

But want people to discuss

Assumes nation is congruent to nations film industry

New wave without a

Country?

Dogme95

Danish movement started by Lars Von

Triers

Based on following a set of rules

Not a shared national concern

Everyone followed these rule regardless

of nationality

First ten include: French, Korean,

Argentine, and US efforts

Second New Wave

Doesn’t rely on state

Don’t see selves as counter

Nation can be detached from state

3 films revived Mexican industry

Amores perros- Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, 2000

Y tu mamá también- Alfonso Cuarón, 2001

El crimen del Padre Amero- Carlso Carrera, 2002

Amores perros &The

Global Actor New direction for Mexican cinema

Popular

Pull from international influences an selective

national

Declare the financial support from before

obsolete

Popular

Against ideas of what cinema should be

Not like telenovelas

Make popular not synonymous with inferior quality

Advanced perspective on social class under global capitalism

Makes different from state financed cinema (telenovlas)

Selective National

and International Influence

Influences from popular art directors

John Cassavete, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-wai

Thanks Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Del Toro

Pays homage to Los olvidados

Luis Buñuel’s most celebrated films

Old ways Obsolete

Throw away cinema de papá

Refuse the relations of production based in state

bureaucracy

Filmmaker in private sector rather being indentured to

the state

El crimen del Padre Amaro

https://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=eella0Yo1I4

El crimen del Padre Amaro

Padre Amaro seduces a woman, she becomes pregnant, and she dies during her back alley abortion…cover-up!

Literal Story- expose’ of church hypocrisy

Figural Story- the State’s hand in cinema

Notable Protesters:

Catholic League

Antiabortion groups

Soldiers of Christ for

the Twenty-first Century

(Only helped

publicize the film)

$-$-$i $enor!

CONTROVERSY! DIOS MIO!

Criticism or Conflicted Celebration

of The Institution?

Gonzales Inarritu• 21 Grams (2003)

• Babel (2006)

• HP and the P of A (2004)

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GLOBALIZATIN

Not cultural homogenization

Less focus on Hollywood

The "Three Amigos":

Alejandro González Iñárritu,

Guillermo Del Toro and

Alfonso Cuarón at the 2007

Academy Awards.