[act-ma] Film Screenings: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in American Film

[Charlie Welch]

*Film Screening: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican 
Revolution in American Film, /¡Viva Zapata!/ 
<http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/BU_Mexico_Films>*
*Location: *Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, CAS 522
*Date: *Tuesday, October 12, 2010
*Time: *6:00 pm
*Contact:* Boston University, 617-353-9278

/Viva Zapata!/ (1952) Directed by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay by John 
Steinbeck, and featuring Marlon Brando as Zapata. This award-winning 
biopic of revolutionary Emiliano Zapatawas filmed during the turbulent 
years of Kazan's testimony before the House Un-American Activities 
Committee. reveals Kazan's attitude toward American politics during 
McCarthyism. Its filming and production were met by tension and 
censorship regulations in Mexico.

Opening Lecture: "Zapata, Zapatismo, and its Representation in /Viva 
Zapata/!", John Womack, Harvard University


*Film Screening: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican 
Revolution in American Film, /Frida/ 
<http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/BU_Mexico_Films_Frida>*
*Location: *Boston University, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, COM 101
*Date: *Wednesday, October 13, 2010
*Time: *7:00 pm
*Contact:* Boston University, 617-353-9278

/Frida/ (2002), directed by Julie Taymor and featuring Salma Hayek as 
Frida Kahlo, /Frida /is a peek into the eccentric life of the woman 
behind the iconic
paintings. The film will be shown in conjunction with the BU 
Cinematheque, a semester-long series of screenings and lectures, 
organized by the College of Communication and hosted by film critic 
Gerald Peary. The evening includes a video address by screen writing 
professor Diane Lake (Emerson College), the chief writer of the film, 
about the film's controversial scripting process.

*Film Screening: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican 
Revolution in American Film, /The Wild Bunch/ 
<http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/BU_Mexico_Films_Wild_Bunch>*
*Location: *Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, CAS 522
*Date: *Thursday, October 14, 2010
*Time: *6:00 pm
*Contact:* Boston University, 617-353-9278

/The Wild Bunch/ (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William 
Holden and Ernest Borgnine, is considered one of the most accomplished 
and bizarre Westerns of the last century. Through the depiction of a 
bloody confrontation between American outlaws and Huertista during the 
Mexican Revolution, this film delivers an explosive criticism of 
American society and politics during the Vietnam years.
Opening Lecure: Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archives, Director

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