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

Pick, Zuzana M.

Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution cinema and the archive / [electronic resource] : Zuzana M. Pick. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010. - x, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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--History and criticism.--Mexico


Mexico--History--Motion pictures and the revolution.--Revolution, 1910-1920

War films