Title: Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive /
Authors: Pick, Zuzana M.
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: War films Mexico History and criticism.; Motion pictures United States History; War films United States History and criticism.; Motion pictures Mexico History and criticism.; Mexico History Motion pictures and the revolution.
Abstract: "With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Río and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconography. Investigating the convergence of cinema, photography, painting, and other graphic arts in this process, Zuzana Pick illuminates how the Mexican Revolution's timeline (1910-1917) corresponds with the emergence of media culture and modernity."--Amazon
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.