| Artful Assassins Subjects: Murder in motion pictures.; Detective and mystery films; Literature and revolutions; National characteristics Mexican in literature.; Assassination in literature.; Murder in literature.; Detective and mystery stories Mexican; Violence as a way of life, and murder as a political tool. This philosophy is nothing new to Mexico, most recently demonstrated in the wave of assassination and indiscriminate killing brought on by the drug war gripping the country. In Artful Assassins , author and scholar Fernando Fabio Sanchez unveils the long record of violence inspiring artistic expression in Mexico, focusing on its use and portrayal in film and literature. Sanchez is uniquely positioned to explore this topic, through his work as a novelist and poet in Mexico before entering academia in the United States.
Fernando Fabio Sanchez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Portland State University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American literature, culture, and film, with an emphasis on Mexico. He teaches courses on this area and related subjects both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Sanchez has also published fiction and poetry. Stephen J. Clark is Associate Professor of Spanish at California State University Channel Islands. |