Explores the wideranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.The first major social revolution of the twentieth century the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase 191021 and the subsequent years of reconstruction 192140. Offering a sweeping and compelling new account of this iconic revolution The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage reveals its profound impact on both global cinema and intellectual thought in and beyond Mexico. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970 Adela Pineda Franco examines a group of North American European and Latin American filmmakers and intellectuals who mined this extensive visual archive to produce politically engaged cinematic works that also reflect and respond to their own sociohistorical contexts. The author weaves together multilayered analysis of individual films the history of their production and reception and broader intellectual developments to illuminate the complex relationship between culture and revolution at the onset of World War II during the Cold War and amid the antisystemic movements agitating Latin America in the 1960s. Ambitious in scope this book charts an innovative transnational history of not only the visual representation but also the very idea of revolution.