‘No Hay Nada Que Celebrar’: Music, Migration, and Violence in Luis Estrada’s El Infierno (2010)

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: ‘No Hay Nada Que Celebrar’: Music, Migration, and Violence in Luis Estrada’s El Infierno (2010)
المؤلفون: Avila, Jacqueline
المصدر: When Music Takes Over in Film ; Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture ; page 181-199 ; ISSN 2634-6354 2634-6362 ; ISBN 9783030891541 9783030891558
بيانات النشر: Springer International Publishing
سنة النشر: 2023
الوصف: Dramatic interpretations of the drug war in Latin America have within recent years increased in number, particularly with television shows such as the Netflix original series Narcos (2015) and Telemundo’s telenovela La reina del sur (2011). During this decade, one of the more significant cinematic contributions is Luis Estrada’s 2010 film El Infierno , which premiered in a sea of controversy. The film follows the protagonist Benny as he transitions from a recently deported undocumented immigrant to a narco-assassin in northern Mexico. To amplify this transition, El Infierno utilises narcocorridos and música norteña , which are aural signifiers for narcocinema, and border culture. This music highlights Benny’s transformation and accompanies explicit scenes of violence, some examples ripped from the headlines from Mexico’s popular press. These musical moments provide a deeply embedded cultural association to the violence and function as a form of desensitisation as Benny witnesses the cartel’s power spin out of control. I analyse two musical moments that emulate Benny’s experiences, first as a deportee then as an assassin, reinforcing his transition from one forced identity to another while also supplying a darkly satirical yet critical commentary on the harsh realities of Mexico’s drug war.
نوع الوثيقة: book part
اللغة: unknown
ردمك: 978-3-030-89154-1
978-3-030-89155-8
3-030-89154-2
3-030-89155-0
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89155-8_10
الاتاحة: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89155-8_10
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-89155-8_10
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.45A8A9EC
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
ردمك:9783030891541
9783030891558
3030891542
3030891550
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-89155-8_10