Abstract

VAZQUEZ MANTECON, Álvaro. Cinematic Zapata (or the Hero Belongs to He Who Works It). Hist. graf [online]. 2022, n.58, pp.57-85.  Epub Feb 21, 2022. ISSN 1405-0927.  https://doi.org/10.48102/hyg.vi58.399.

This paper presents a diachronic analysis of 20 century’s movie portrayals of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. It emphasizes the use of his image from different perspectives, allowing us to understand the various cinematic symbols deployed by Mexican society. Cinematographic materials spanning from the first film registers to several representations of the hero in fiction films show that there is no unified image of the hero; his representation is dynamic and variable. The materials demonstrate that throughout the century, Zapata’s cinematic figure was inflected with society’s changing concerns. Emiliano’s portrayal is recurrent, but its meaning isn’t uniform. The reconstruction of the different moments of a large temporal frame allows us to understand how cultural memory is constructed.

Keywords : Emiliano Zapata; zapatismo; cine e historia; representaciones del pasado.

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