Mexico

The Celluloid Revolution

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21144652
AutoresDavid M J Wood (0000-0003-1232-9965, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume20
Fascículo4
Páginas449-461
Data de publicação2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2011.640316
OpenAlexW2320014306
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas10

This review essay evaluates two books published in 2010, the centennial year of the Mexican revolution: La luz y la guerra: el cine de la Revolución mexicana (ed. Fernando Fabio Sánchez and Gerardo García Muñoz) and Constructing the Image of the Revolution: Cinema and the Archive (Zuzana Pick). An initial reflection on the Yo México multimedia light-and-sound show, held in Mexico City's zócalo in November 2010, serves as a springboard for an analysis of these two books' historical, critical and theoretical accounts of the presence of the Mexican revolution in cinema. Among the key themes dealt with are the ideological meanings pinned to the revolution in filmic discourse; the relations between cinema, state and market interests; the intertextuality, commodification, reflexivity and aesthetics of spectacle that define and determine many of these narratives; the notion of filmic images as ‘visual archives’ of the revolution; and the ways in which cinematic images address and are received by audiences

Art · Art history · Centennial · Commodification · Humanities · Ideology · Intertextuality · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Spectacle · Visual arts · Cinema History and Criticism · History · Photographic and Visual Arts