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
Description: "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
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.