Colonialist and colonized: The Golden Age of Mexican cinema

Abstract

In this article I outline that the Mexican cinema of the Golden Age can be considered as a colonialist and colonized cinema. It is colonialist in the measure in that impose a restricted group of lifestyles on a culturally heterogeneous world as the Mexican, contributing to the gestation of a powerful Mexican imaginary fixed by melodramas, comedies and rancheras that exclude of their film practices the Mexican multiculturality. On the other hand, it is a colonized cinema in the measure in that it replies Hollywood's forms of production that conceive the cinema like a factory of dreams that it spreads to foment the escapist fantasies, omitting of their thematic the sociocultural and economic problems, contributing this way to the alienation of the spectators.