The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage by Adela Pineda Franco

The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage by Adela Pineda Franco

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.

"This extraordinary study returns the visual reverberations of the Mexican Revolution to the place they once occupied in the world's arena … This is a deeply researched, intelligently conceptualized, and well-written study" — Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

"The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage is a first-rate, thoroughly researched work that opens a new area of inquiry in the field. It reveals how the visual archive of the revolution has been locally and globally used and abused to either ascertain or contest the significance of the revolution in differing contexts and periods by delving into the ideological complexities, even paradoxes, of cultural production." — Zuzana M. Pick, author of Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the Archive

"This book is a vital and compelling historical analysis of the contexts and contribution international filmmakers have made to the construction of the Mexican Revolution on film. The archival research is impressive and wide-ranging." — Niamh Thornton, author of Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film

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.

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ISBN 13	9781438475615
ISBN 10	1438475616
Title	The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage
Author	Adela Pineda Franco
Series	Suny Series In Latin American Cinema
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2019-08-01
Number of pages	286
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