{"title":"Unions","authors":"Reyna Esquivel-King","doi":"10.1525/msem.2022.38.2.331","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relationship between the Mexican government and cinema unions between the 1910s and 1944. I show how unions influenced the creation and dissemination of a national identity in film through strikes and contract negotiations. To that end, I analyze the history of cinema unions in Mexico and then examine the conflict between two major groups within the cinema unions—the actors and technical workers—and its impact on the film industry. The article also examines how the government negotiated with the unions and argues that unions influenced the film industry and censorship through debates and compromises with government officials.","PeriodicalId":44006,"journal":{"name":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MEXICAN STUDIES-ESTUDIOS MEXICANOS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/msem.2022.38.2.331","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between the Mexican government and cinema unions between the 1910s and 1944. I show how unions influenced the creation and dissemination of a national identity in film through strikes and contract negotiations. To that end, I analyze the history of cinema unions in Mexico and then examine the conflict between two major groups within the cinema unions—the actors and technical workers—and its impact on the film industry. The article also examines how the government negotiated with the unions and argues that unions influenced the film industry and censorship through debates and compromises with government officials.
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The rich cultural production and unique peoples of Mexico--coupled with the country"s complex history, political legacy, social character, economy, and scientific development--lay the foundation for the bilingual Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, the only U.S. published academic journal of its kind. Journal articles in both English and Spanish are welcomed from a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, comparative analyses notwithstanding. All content published remains focused on the contributions to and knowledge of Mexican studies as a discipline.