Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution by Zuzana M.... - 9780292725621

Constructing the Image of the Mexican RevolutionCinema and the Archive\nAuthor(s): Zuzana M. Pick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292725621, 978-0292725621\nSynopsis\nKatherine Singer Kovcs Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011\n\n With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Ro and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists in revolutionizing Mexico's twentieth-century national iconography. Investigating the convergence of cinema, photography, painting, and other graphic arts in this process, Zuzana Pick illuminates how the Mexican Revolution's timeline [tel] corresponds with the emergence of media culture and modernity. \n\n Drawing on twelve foundational films from Que Viva Mexico! [tel] to And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself [tel], Pick proposes that cinematic images refle.