Description: Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"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