scholarly journals Una huella mexicana en el cine español: la naturaleza mágica y resistente en Biutiful de Alejandro González Iñárritu y El laberinto del fauno de Guillermo del Toro

2016 ◽  
pp. 99-121
Author(s):  
David Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Behind the money: Alejandro González Iñárritu as career director

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Julian Smith
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Primary Materials ◽  
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This article is presented in two halves. The first analyses little known interviews with Iñárritu before he made his career in feature films that document his practice in radio, advertising and television drama. These interviews focus on his early conception of the relation between art and commerce and his views on the Mexican media scene in the 1990s. The second half of the article analyses the rare primary materials themselves: radio commercials, television idents and, at much greater length, his first feature-length fiction film, an experimental drama made for Televisa in 1995 called Detrás del dinero/Behind the Money. The conclusion argues that even as Iñárritu has more recently distanced himself from broadcasting, his later career as an artistic and commercially successful feature film director embodies a precarious balance between artistic innovation and mass culture and a focus on the audience which he first learned in his early work in advertising, radio and television.

Shifting conceptions of Alejandro González Iñárritu: Interpreting the auteur

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Dolores Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Latin American Cinema ◽  
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This introduction to a Special Issue of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema charts the shift in Alejandro González Iñárritu's directorial persona from transnational auteur to mainstream figure over the course of his six feature films and virtual reality installation: Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), The Revenant (2015) and the installation Carne y arena (Virtually Present, Physically invisible) (2017). It argues that this shift into a (predominantly Anglo) mainstream is reflected in the different ways in which his last names (apellidos) are used, abbreviated or even excised altogether, and in the differing approaches to him as auteur employed by the authors of the different articles, but that Iñárritu’s persona and creative collaborators continue to be primarily determined by his Mexican and Latin American identity.

scholarly journals Babel multiculturalista

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Eneida Maria de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Starting Point ◽  
Humanitarian Values ◽  
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Resumo: A partir do filme Babel, de Alejandro González Iñarritu, o estudo trata dos descompassos da modernização conservadora e desenfreada, que tem como preço a perda dos valores humanitários, em nações que se desintegram e se fragmentam na luta pelo domínio.Palavras-chave: Babel; multiculturalismo; modernidade.Abstract: Using Alejandro González Iñarritu’s movie Babel as a starting point, this paper examines the discordances of conservative and unbridled modernization that causes the loss of humanitarian values in nations that disintegrate and collapse in the fight for dominion.Keywords: Babel; multiculturalismo; modernity.

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