The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Pineda Franco, Adela

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438475608 ISBN 13 : 9781438475608

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adela Pineda Franco is Professor of Latin American Literature and Film at Boston University. She is the coeditor (with Jaime Marroquin Arredondo and Magdalena Mieri) of Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438475608
• ISBN 13: 9781438475608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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