Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive / Zuzana M. Pick.

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Main Author: Pick, Zuzana M.
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Format: Kit
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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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.