Sentences with phrase «mexican national identity»

In the years following the Mexican Revolution (1910 - 20), jewelry and other silver objects were crafted there with an entirely innovative approach, informed by modernism and the creation of a new Mexican national identity.

By the deliberate efforts of post-revolutionary governments the «Mestizo identity» was constructed as the base of the modern Mexican national identity, through a process of cultural synthesis referred to as mestizaje [mestiˈsahe].

It seems necessary to call bullshit on Rowe's assertion, in the film's press notes, that Leap Year is a metaphor «for the complex victimizer - victim dichotomy that I think is at the very heart of Mexican national identity,» if only because that theme, so explicitly milked for maximum operatic verismo in Battle in Heaven, isn't being worked out on this particular film's screen.

(36) But however personal the film, Santa Sangre still bears a smattering of political critique, whether in the American stars - and - stripes splashed around the gringo circus, the emblematic eagle symbolising American currency instead of Mexican national identity (as on the Mexican flag), starving slum dwellers feeding off the waste (a dead elephant symbolising Christ) of the gringo circus, the syncretic Santa Sangre church being destroyed by Catholic officials and greedy developers, etc..

Not exact matches

Amidst the roiling national debate about American identity, veteran California Latina artist Linda Vallejo creates a realm in which US popular culture is overlain with a Mexican - American sensibility.

The search for national identity provides the historic backdrop for La vida en marcha: Mexican Prints from the Permanent Collection.

Launched in the wake of the Mexican Revolution and backed by the government, the Mexican Muralist movement aimed to produce monumental public murals that mined the country's national history and identity.

Nineteenth - century Mexican landscape painting sought to fuse national identity with the land, just like similar imagery in other North American and European art.