Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature, edited by Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Mauricio Díaz Calderón and James Ramey

Abstract

In the early twenty-first century, scholars began examining Mexican films as part of a large network of exchanges and influences. While Hester Baer and Bryan Long analysed Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mama también (2001) as a prime example of transnational Mexican cinema, Laura Isabel Serna explored the relationship between Mexican and American cinemas in the early twentieth century and Nancy Membrez examined Macario (1960). With the creation of the journal Transnational Cinemas in 2010, the study of cinema as an endeavour that involved multiple countries/regions gained further ground. For instance, in her article in a special issue dedicated to Transnational Latin American Cinemas, Jean Anne Lauer focused on the support for Mexican cinema in national and international contexts.