Lo grotesco como crítica social en el cine mexicano actual

Resum

This research consists in the analysis of the function and critical capacity of the grotesque in contemporary Mexican cinema. On the one hand, I examined and clarified the fundamental types of grotesque in art in general, and in cinema in particular. On the other hand, I explored the elements linked to the grotesque that operate in the Mexican imaginary. Next, I have focused my analysis on four feature films which have a critical approach: A Wonderful World (Estrada, 2006), Halley (2012, Hofmann), The Wild Region (Escalante, 2016) and Tigers are not afraid (López, 2017). I applied them the concepts linked to the grotesque such as the monstrous, traumatic, the abject, the macabre, the carnival, the astonishing, etc. Verifying that the grotesque constitutes a fundamental device for the elaboration of counter-hegemonic discourses the oppressed and marginal social realities, as an essential element of the human imaginary that works from the ambivalence, inversion and transgression of mainstream structural frameworks.