Resumen de Adolescencia y cine en México, 1954-1962. Modernizando al ángel caído
This essay describes the institutional film representation of adolescence in classical Mexican cinema whilst characterising the defining elements that convert it into an individual subgenre even when it forms part of the family melodrama. The iconographic code, diegesis and structural myth are distinguished to conclude by specifying the nature of the innovation and the specific inertia present within the subgenre, both on a formal level and with regard to the ideas it expresses. If modernity is clearly reflected in fashion, music and ritual objects, the same does not apply to the archetypes that found narration, in this case the likeable “fallen angel” of Catholicism
