Conclusion

Abstract

As this book’s manuscript was in its final stages, president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his new PRI administration were beginning their transition into government posts. Although this changing of state personnel every six years is common practice in Mexico, its effects on policy and on institutional continuity will very likely be more severe given that a new political party is taking office. But because a change of party has happened just once since the PRI first took power in 1929, one can only speculate. This final chapter will function as both conclusion and epilogue, seeking to insert some historical distance into the analysis of what was quite contemporary in the moment of research, while also bringing in Mexican cinema’s most recent occurrences. Central to this merging of past and present is how the current political and economic conditions relate to the themes of censorship and violence explored in prior chapters.