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A vivid recasting of the revolutionary visual images that shaped modern Mexican identity.

Trade Review
"An outstanding contribution to our critical understanding of the representation of the Mexican Revolution in contexts that go far beyond purely national interest." Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Visualizing and Romancing the Revolution
  • Chapter 1. The Revolution as Media Event: Documentary Image and the Archive
  • Chapter 2. Historicity and the Archive: Reconstruction and Appropriation
  • Chapter 3. Pancho Villa on Two Sides of the Border
  • Chapter 4. Avant-Garde Gestures and Nationalist Images of Mexico in Eisenstein's Unfinished Project
  • Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the Revolution: Celebrity and Melodrama
  • Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Spectacle
  • Chapter 7. Competing Narratives and Converging Visions
  • Conclusion. Thoughts on Working with the Archive
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/01/2010
      ISBN13: 9780292725621, 978-0292725621
      ISBN10: 0292725620

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A vivid recasting of the revolutionary visual images that shaped modern Mexican identity.

      Trade Review
      "An outstanding contribution to our critical understanding of the representation of the Mexican Revolution in contexts that go far beyond purely national interest." Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction. Visualizing and Romancing the Revolution
      • Chapter 1. The Revolution as Media Event: Documentary Image and the Archive
      • Chapter 2. Historicity and the Archive: Reconstruction and Appropriation
      • Chapter 3. Pancho Villa on Two Sides of the Border
      • Chapter 4. Avant-Garde Gestures and Nationalist Images of Mexico in Eisenstein's Unfinished Project
      • Chapter 5. Reconfiguring the Revolution: Celebrity and Melodrama
      • Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Spectacle
      • Chapter 7. Competing Narratives and Converging Visions
      • Conclusion. Thoughts on Working with the Archive
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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