Whilst in Mexico City I was invited to give a talk by the UNAM and the Museo Nacional de la Revolución. I also launched my book, Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Cinema. Here’s the poster of the event.
Month: May 2015
“De gran importancia” – Mexican film scholarship
Lauro Zavala, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University, St Louis discuss the need for a Film Research Institute in Mexico in the Mexican national newspaper, El Universal. It is a good survey of the current state of film scholarship. Also, I am honoured to be highlighted as one of the leading film scholars in the UK in Mexican…
Mediático – Dara and Ed’s (Not So) Great Big Adventure
My recent contribution to Mediático, “Dara and Ed’s (Not so) Great Big Adventure”, reflects on Irish comedians, Dara O’Briain and Ed Byrne’s journey from Arizona to Panama City, which was recently broadcast on Irish and British terrestrial television. They follow a similar trail made in the 1940s by Sullivan C. Richardson and two of his friends, which frames…
Frida Kahlo and Her Prosthetic Aids
In collaboration with Prof Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool, I wrote ‘“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best” – Frida Kahlo’ on the significance of prosthetic limbs, illness, props, selfhood, politics and art for the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. This was a contribution to the Life and Limbs blog page and thinking around…
Los de abajo Commemoration in Los Angeles
On the 15th and 16th of May I’ll be a featured speaker in a second conference commemorating the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Mariano Azuela’s novela de la Revolución, Los de abajo. Click herefor more information. My paper,”A Question of Taste: the Cinematic Adaptations of Los de Abajo“, considers the two films adaptations, the first in…