Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution
Subtitle: cinema and the archive
By: Zuzana M. Pick
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780292721081
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : visualizing and romancing the revolution; title: The revolution as media event : documentary image and the archive; title: Historicity and the archive : reconstruction and appropriation; title: Pancho Villa on two sides of the border; title: Avant-garde gestures and nationalist images of Mexico in Eisenstein's unfinished project; title: Reconfiguring the revolution : celebrity and melodrama; title: The aesthetics of spectacle; title: Competing narratives and converging visions; title: Conclusion : thoughts on working with the archive.