Lecture by Adela Pineda Franco, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies, Boston University
Even before World War I and long before the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution of 1910 was subject to cinematic reproduction. An immense proliferation of photographic and cinematic records characterized its armed phase (1910-1921). The hermeneutical possibilities of the revolution’s immense visual archive have triggered cultural and political interest in and outside Mexico. This talk explores the repercussions of this archive on revolutionary thinking during the Cold War by bringing to the fore intellectual concerns related to the notion of revolution in its modern form, in the world stage.
Adela Pineda Franco (Boston University) has written on modernismo, cinema, and on the relationship between culture and politics. She is the author of Geopolíticas de la cultura finisecular en Buenos Aires, París y México: las revistas literarias y el modernismo (ILLI, 2006), Steinbeck y Mexico. Una mirada cinematográfica en la era de la hegemonía estadounidense (Bonilla y Artiga Editores, 2018) and The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century (SUNY Press, forthcoming).
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese