From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema)
The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark ladythese have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a cent
La crisis, a period of political and economic turmoil in Mexico that began in the late 1960s, spawned a new era in Mexican cinema. Known as el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema), these films presented aliena
