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Mexican Film/maria Candelaria

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...a “mestizo entity,” that is, it is the product of “the colonial encounter between Indians, Spaniards (and Africans)” (Noble 81). As such, the Mexican culture struggles to understand its fundamental nature and to express the cultural dichotomies held within this paradigm. One of the ways in which this task has been expressed is through cinema. The following film analysis focuses on director Emilio Fernandez’s Maria Candelaria (1943) and how this film relates to the task of addressing the legacy of colonialism within the context of Mexican history.
Benedict Anderson has written extensively on the role of media and film in formulating concepts of nationalism. In other words, people define themselves and how they see their society at least in part through their fiction. For example, in 1816, Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi wrote El Periquillo Sarniento, which is considered to be a “nationalist” novel that provides a “’ferocious indictment of Spanish administration of Mexico,” equating this government with the propagation of “ignorance, superstition and corruption” (Anderson 29). As...

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