Filming Pancho - How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution

Klappentext Presents an account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. This book reveals how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how movies reinforced and justified both American expansionism and racial and social prejudice. Zusammenfassung Presents an account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. This book reveals how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how movies reinforced and justified both American expansionism and racial and social prejudice.

Product details

• Authors: Margarita de Orellana
• Assisted by: John King (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9781859846469
• ISBN: 978-1-85984-646-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries