Award winning Pick

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies has selected Carleton University Professor Zuzana Pick as the winner of the prestigious Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award for her recent publication, “Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the Archive”

The selection committee citation wrote:

“Zuzana M. Pick has given us a nuanced and insightful transnational analysis of a national epic and its hero, the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa.  This study of the cinematic iconography and archival traces of the two covers the period of the revolution into the modern day, examines a range of Mexican media from the popular to the more obscure, the documentary to the fictional.  Treating the archive as both a resource and a filmmaker’s tool, Pick studies the image of the Mexican Revolution as it was produced in Mexico and the United States, by the conventional motion picture studio as well as by a more avant-gardist aesthetic.  Through readings of the work of Emilio Fernandez, Pedro Armendariz,  Dolores Del Rio, Howard Hawks, and Sergei Eisenstien, Pick gives us new ways to think about the relations between the national and the international and the role of political movements in the production of culture.”

The formal announcement of the award was made on March 10, 2011 at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ annual conference in New Orleans.