Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive /

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<P>With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del R?o and Tina Modotti, <cite>Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution</cite> demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconogr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pick, Zuzana M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
War films > Mexico > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Mexico > History and criticism.
War films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism.
Films de guerre > Mexique > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Mexique > Histoire et critique.
Films de guerre > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
War films
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Motion pictures and the revolution.
Mexico
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : visualizing and romancing the revolution
  • The revolution as media event : documentary image and the archive
  • Historicity and the archive : reconstruction and appropriation
  • Pancho Villa on two sides of the border
  • Avant-garde gestures and nationalist images of Mexico in Eisenstein's unfinished project
  • Reconfiguring the revolution : celebrity and melodrama
  • The aesthetics of spectacle
  • Competing narratives and converging visions
  • Conclusion : thoughts on working with the archive.

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