The classical Mexican cinema: the poetics of the exceptional Golden Age films

Introduction : Retheorizing Mexican film history

Every picture tells a story : José Guadalupe Posada's protocinematic graphic art

Enrique Rosas's El automóvil gris (1919) and the dawning of modern Mexican cinema

The adoption of the Hollywood style and the transition to sound

Mexican cinema comes of age : Fernando de Fuentes in the 1930s

The cinematic invention of Mexico : the poetics and politics of the Fernández unit style

Luis Buñuel in Mexico

Three classical Mexican cinema genre films

Conclusion : What happened to the classical Mexican cinema?.