Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive / / Zuzana M. Pick
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| Autore: |
Pick Zuzana M
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| Titolo: |
Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive / / Zuzana M. Pick
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 253 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/658 |
| Soggetto topico: | War films - Mexico - History and criticism |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Motion pictures and the revolution |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. Drawing on twelve foundational films from Que Viva Mexico! (1931–1932) to And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003), Pick proposes that cinematic images reflect the image repertoire produced during the revolution, often playing on existing nationalist themes or on folkloric motifs designed for export. Ultimately illustrating the ways in which modernism reinvented existing signifiers of national identity, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution unites historicity, aesthetics, and narrative to enrich our understanding of Mexicanidad. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution |
| ISBN: | 0-292-79342-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811862203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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