The Mexican Revolution on the world stage : intellectuals and film in the twentieth century / Adela Pineda Franco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pineda Franco, Adela Eugenia, 1964- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

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

Mexico.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

War films--History and criticism.

War films.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2019]

Summary:

The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically engaged cinematic works that also reflect and respond to their own sociohistorical contexts. The author weaves together multilayered analysis of individual films, the history of their production and reception, and broader intellectual developments to illuminate the complex relationship between culture and revolution at the onset of World War II, during the Cold War, and amid the anti-systemic movements agitating Latin America in the 1960s. Ambitious in scope, this book charts an innovative transnational history of not only the visual representation but also the very idea of revolution.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

The mirage of community: a Mexican village in times of war

Zapata in the presidential chair: viva Zapata!

The "Quién Sabe" of revolution in the Italian Western

Resisting the populist temptation: "México, la revolución congelada" and Raymundo Gleyzer's Latin Americanist cinema

Epilogue

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438475615

1438475616

9781438475608

1438475608

OCLC:

1096222242