Pancho Villa! Hollywood Darling

text_mex_galleryblog-300x61From the textmex obsessed imagination of 

The introduction of Tex[t]-Mex is a thinly disguised love letter to Paul Virilio, whose War & Cinema infected my synapses in a determinate fashion back in villa_mextasythe go-go days of deconstruction, when frenchie intellectual fare was the order of the day. In it, I barely scratch the surface on Doroteo Arango (aka Pancho Villa) and his collaborations with motion pictures and Hollywood Studios.

A better resource? Rita Gonzalez’s brief piece on Gregoria Rocha’s ROLLOS PERDIDOS DE PANCHO VILLA/The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa, from 2003 available via SubCine. I’ll update this posting after I screen the film next week! The film is conveniently available in four parts via YouTube…

This post first appeared in the textmex galleryblog.

William Anthony Nericcio, aka “Memo,” is the Director of San Diego State University’s ever-evolving MALAS program (The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences)–a dynamic, interdisciplinary, cultural studies graduate program located near the U.S./Mexico border. Nericcio also serves on the faculties of the Chicana/o Studies Department, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at SDSU.

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