Entre desprecios y balas: el wéstern mexicano

Abstract

As André Bazin once stated, the western genre has a geographical universality that allows it to adapt to different countries and their realities. This article analyzes the main features of this film genre in Mexico, identifying its links with the American western genre, as well as the elements that differentiate it and define its own identity. The analysis begins by accounting for a certain contempt expressed by the Mexican academy, unfounded in the precarious production conditions of this genre. Subsequently, the narrative and stylistic transformations that the genre goes through in the aforementioned country from the mid-20th century to the first decade of the 21st century are reviewed.