Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa

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Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa Author(s): Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Source: Mexican Studies/JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org..

Mexico: The Celluloid Revolution

“…While much of the discussion here has been concerned with the discursive and narrative properties of cinema, one of the main contributions of Pick's volume, as is rightly pointed out by Ignacio Sánchez Prado (2011) (who sees the book as symptomatic of a distinct 'visual turn' in Mexican cultural studies since 2007), is her focus on audiences' cognition of the celluloid Mexican revolution. Although Pick (5) claims at the outset of her book an interest in the reception of the films she discusses, rarely does she enter into what Janet Staiger calls a 'historical materialist' approach to film reception: a focus on 'the identities and interpretative strategies and tactics brought by spectators to the cinema' (Staiger 2000: 23) emphasis in original.…”