Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.Tastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments the decadelong centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010 the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created mediated selected or categorized by tastemakers through the strategic choices made by institutions filmmakers actors and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between ampampquotgoodampampquot and ampampquotbadampampquot taste Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both ampampquothighampampquot and ampampquotlowampampquot media including film cycles and festivals adaptations of Mariano Azuelas 1915 novel Los de Abajo Amat Escalantes hyperrealist art films and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela La reina del sur.