| Titre | El cine gay mexicano y su impacto en la imagen nacional | |
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| Auteur | Alfredo Martínez Expósito | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 7, 2012 Imaginaire et réalité dans les Amériques: mémoire, identité et politique sexuelle | |
| Résumé anglais |
The conspicuous scarcity of gay characters and themes in Mexican cinema often has been interpreted in anthropological terms as a cultural effect of a machismo-inflected patriarchy. This paper puts forward an alternative interpretation based on the possible link between sexuality (including homosexuality) and nation image – both the image that Mexicans have formed of his own country and the image that Mexico has exported to other countries. Given the close connection that exists between patriarchy and Mexicanness it could be argued that cinematic attempts to introduce gay characters and themes in national cinema should necessarily be doomed. That is why the strategies used by Mexican directors in different historical times to introduce homosexual themes are particularly relevant. The fake homosexual in Modisto de señoras ; the closeted gay couple in Doña Herlinda y su hijo ; and the latent homosexual in Y tu mamá también represent different approaches to the gay theme, which always tests the limits of national tolerance. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/3379 |
