Author Niamh Thornton

Niamh Thornton

Niamh Thornton is Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool. She is a specialist in Mexican Film, Literature, and Digital Cultures with a particular interest in how judgements of taste and tastemakers determine what forms of violence are produced and circulated. Her most recent book is María Félix: A Mexican Film Star and Her Legacy (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2023).

Enamorada

Niamh Thornton

August 2025

CTEQ Annotations on Film

In Enamorada (Emilio Fernández, 1946) María Félix is Beatriz, daughter of a wealthy landowner in Cholula, central Mexico. Pedro Armendáriz is General José Juan Reyes, leader of a battalion in the Revolution (19...