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Author Abel Muñoz Hénonin

Abel Muñoz Hénonin

Abel Muñoz-Hénonin, one of our editors, teaches Film History at Escuela Superior de Cine and Latin American Cinema at Universidad Iberoamericana. Previously, he was the chief curator at his country’s national film archive, Cineteca Nacional, where he founded the Mexican film/moving images magazine Icónica.

For a Double-Edged Theory: Christian Metz’ Essais sur la signification au cinéma at 50

Abel Muñoz Hénonin
January 2023
Book Reviews
The problem we face here is self-evident: how to address an unquestionable classic of film theory yet again? At a first glance, it might seem like almost nonsense – its contributions to the field are well as...

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Abel Muñoz Hénonin
April 2020
Great Directors
b. 26 March 1906, Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico d. 6 August 1986, Mexico City Emilio “Indio” Fernández set himself as a goal, perhaps one of the most unlikely film projects ever: to build a nation, Me...

The echo of the Three Amigos

Abel Muñoz Hénonin
October 2019
This is what defined cinema in the 2010s
The three best known Latin-American filmmakers worldwide, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro, are the surviving core of the greatest American film tradition, alongside Paul Thom...

The dream of a Mexican film industry

Abel Muñoz Hénonin
December 2018
Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox
Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Abel Muñoz Hénonin Translated by Gabriella Munoz In Mexico, cinema is not something that is thought of in terms of present and future. This is a curious ...

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