Violence, Conflict and Discourse in Mexican Cinema (2002-2015)

Miriam Haddu is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. She specialises in Mexican film, photography, and documentary filmmaking. She has curated international exhibitions on Mexican photography and has published extensively in the field. She is the author of Contemporary Mexican Cinema (1989-1999): History, Space and Identity, and her co-edited books include Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America and Legacies of the Past: Memory and Trauma in Mexican Visual and Audio-Visual Culture.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Indigeneity, Insurgency and Resistance: El violín (2006) and Corazón del tiempo (2009).- Chapter 3: Political Violence: The Case of Conejo en la luna (Rabbit on the Moon) (2004) and Colosio: El asesinato (Colosio: The Assassination) (2012).- Chapter 4: Drug Violence and Narco Wars Part I: Luis Estrada’s El infierno (Hell) (2010).- Chapter 5: Drug Violence and Narco Wars Part II: Amat Escalante’s Heli (2013).- Chapter 6: Spectral Visions: Mexican Directors in Europe (Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón).- Chapter 7: Textual Hybridities in Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino (2002).- Chapter 8: Loss and Mourning in Documentary: Tatiana Huezo’s Ausencias (2015).- Chapter 9: Conclusion.