| Abstrakt: |
This article describes the contrast between two main male comics and actors and popular figures of the Mexican cinema's Golden Era: German Valdes Tin Tan and Mario Moreno Cantinflas. I argue that these two Mexican cultural icons portrayed distinct cultural, gender, class, political, and cultural representations of working-class and poor individuals in Mexican cinema. The construction of a Mexican masculinity identity has been developed over the history of that country, with indigenismo, colonialism, rural to urban migration, and the migration to the US as social, cultural, and political backdrop to the development of a hybrid identity. The cross-cultural exchanges in the borderland between US and Mexico influences this development, and globalization has also influenced the representation of Mexicans living in Mexico, and those who migrated to the US who have watched their films. This article will also compare and contrast the symbolic cultural representations of the Mexican cultural identify through the symbolic images of these two comedians and their archetypes: the Pelado and the Pachuco. By examining their characters' personal traits and their cultural representations, this article will provide an analysis of Mario and German's robust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
