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On January 3, 1914 Pancho Villa became Hollywood’s first Mexican superstar. In signing an exclusive movie contract, Villa agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight wherever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting.
Through memoir and newspaper reports, Margarita De Orellana looks at the documentary film-makers who went down to cover events in Mexico. Feature film-makers in Hollywood portrayed the border as the dividing line between order and chaos, in the process developing a series of lasting Mexican stereotypes—the greaser, the bandit, the beautiful seńorita, the exotic Aztec. Filming Pancho reveals how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how movies reinforced and justified both American expansionism and racial and social prejudice.
Through memoir and newspaper reports, Margarita De Orellana looks at the documentary film-makers who went down to cover events in Mexico. Feature film-makers in Hollywood portrayed the border as the dividing line between order and chaos, in the process developing a series of lasting Mexican stereotypes—the greaser, the bandit, the beautiful seńorita, the exotic Aztec. Filming Pancho reveals how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how movies reinforced and justified both American expansionism and racial and social prejudice.
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Enagaging details and abundant anecdote .. Orellana unearthed makes Filming Pancho a treasure for any cinema buff. --Michal Boncza, Morning Star
Filming Pancho takes film seriously. It requires a knowledgeable historian like Margarita de Orellana to make sense of it all, to tell us who is who, and why what we are watching is significant. --Kevin Brownlow
A first-rate contribution to the history of cinema and cinematographic technique. --Friedrich Katz, author of The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
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Filming Pancho takes film seriously. It requires a knowledgeable historian like Margarita de Orellana to make sense of it all, to tell us who is who, and why what we are watching is significant. --Kevin Brownlow
A first-rate contribution to the history of cinema and cinematographic technique. --Friedrich Katz, author of The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Margarita de Orellana is the editor of Artes de Mexico and author of, among other works, Cine Mexicano, Enrique Climent: el arraigo de la imaginación, The Social Documentary in Latin America and Filming Pancho.
John King is Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick.
John King is Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick.
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- EditoreVerso Books
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 1859846467
- ISBN 13 9781859846469
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine256
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