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La India Maria: Mexploitation and the Films of Maria Elena Velasco by Seraina Rohrer Details

No India Maria - a modest and stubborn Mexican woman - is one of the most popular characters in Mexican theater, television and film. María Lena Velasco and her photo…

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No India Maria - a modest and stubborn Mexican woman - is one of the most popular characters in Mexican theater, television and film. María Lena Velasco and her photo were filmed, and Maria has been in the audience since the late 1960s with a sense of humor that is critical of the subtlety of discrimination and of the strong.

But at the same time, many critics ridiculed this iconic figure as a racist portrayal of a negative stereotype and rejected the films of "Maria India" as an exploitation cinema that did not deserve serious attention. By contrast, La India Maria builds a compelling case for Maria Elena Velasco as an artist who has been working as a director and a rare producer for women in Mexican cinema has been widely ignored and unfair.

Drawing on extensive interviews with Velasco, her family, film industry professionals and archival research, Serena Rohrer presents the first full account of Velasco's life. Filmed by La India Maria in Vodafone, television, and sixteen comedies, including Ni de Aqui, ni de alla [not here and there]; and its controversial reception in Mexico and the United States.

Rohrer traces film funding, production and distribution, as well as censorship practices in that period, compared to other Mexploitation films produced at the same time. In addition to a new chapter on the history of Mexican films known as "The Crisis," this pioneering research enriches our appreciation of Mexploitation films..



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