In our first episode, we meet host Nehem Felices, hear someevidence from hardboiled P.I. Marvin Steele, and discuss the 1951 Mexican film Victims of Sin. Plus, a dance break. Hopefully this podcast lasts as long as the PRI’s reign. (I don’t actually hope this: I don’t want to do this for 60 years)

0:00 – Cold open and intro

Intro music: Kevin MacLeod – Dancesand Dames

2:33 – Opening remarks & Marvin Steele’s evidence

Marvin monologue music: PatrickDavies – A Body in the Alley

7:36 – Background information on Victims of Sin

9:02 – Reaction & review, great moments

14:50 – Alemanismo and the cabaretera film

** I mistakenly said the president beforeMiguel Alemán was Lázaro Cárdenas. This was wrong; it was Manuel Ávila Camacho.

Mora, C.J. (2012). MexicanCinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004 (3rd ed.). McFarland.

Hamnett, B.R. (2019). A ConciseHistory of Mexico (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

20:11 – Victims of Sin and feminism in Mexico

Music: Kevin MacLeod – No-FrillsSalsa

Tuñon Pablos, E. (1992). Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Mexico: Accomplishments,Problems, and Challenges (D. Arriaga & V. Arriaga, Trans.). In J.M.Bystydzienski (Ed.), Women transforming politics: worldwide strategies forempowerment (pp. 95-107). Indiana University Press.

26:40 – Comparables, wrap-up, and outro