La venganza de Pancho Villa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5339902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Isabel Serna (0000-0002-9370-137X, Laura Isabel Serna is an assistant professor of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and other essays on cinema in Mexico and Mexican immigrant communities in the United States during the Silent Era. Her research interests include race and silent cinema, border film cultures, historical reception studies, and Mexican, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 11-42 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0005-2604 • E-ISSN: 2996-2595 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/azt.2012.37.2.11 |
| OpenAlex | W4390804194 |
| Language | EN |
The compilation film La venganza de Pancho Villa (ca. 1930), created by itinerant exhibitor Félix Padilla, combines footage from two national cinematic traditions- those of the United States and Mexico-to construct a biographical film about the regional hero and revolutionary general Francisco "Pancho" Villa. The film's use of found footage offers a retort to American films rife with stereotypical images of Mexican masculinity. However, a close reading of the film in the context of local practices of film distribution and exhibition finds that the film expresses an oppositional consciousness shaped by the structures and ideologies of the dominant film industries it draws from, including a masculinist nationalism that reinscribes racial and gender hierarchies
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology) · HERO · Ideology · Literature · Masculinity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Photographic and Visual Arts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |