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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pick, Zuzana M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Motion pictures and the revolution.
War films > Mexico > History and criticism.
Table of 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.