The Mexican Revolution on the world stage : intellectuals and film in the twentieth century / Adela Pineda Franco

The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American, European, and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically engaged cinematic works that also reflect and respond to their own sociohistorical contexts. The author weaves together multilayered analysis of individual films, the history of their production and reception, and broader intellectual developments to illuminate the complex relationship between culture and revolution at the onset of World War II, during the Cold War, and amid the anti-systemic movements agitating Latin America in the 1960s. Ambitious in scope, this book charts an innovative transnational history of not only the visual representation but also the very idea of revolution

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index

The mirage of community: a Mexican village in times of war -- Zapata in the presidential chair: Viva Zapata! -- The "Quién Sabe" of revolution in the Italian Western -- Resisting the populist temptation: México, la revolución congelada and Raymundo Gleyzer's Latin Americanist cinema

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