Pancho Villa! Hollywood Darling

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 the 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...

AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT | New Salma Hayek Film (Preview Clip Now Released)

Salma Hayek continues to evolve as an actress and a force in cinema--more on her new film AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT here, off the Indie Wire...

click the image for the story and the film clip....

Here's a random publicity glossy from a Vogue Magazine shoot:

'Bless me Ultima'——the film (¡por fin!)

Cool New Book from Alejandro L. Madrid | MUSIC IN MEXICO: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Buy it! Read it! Listen to it!

From the publicity cohort at Oxford University Press:

 "The complex legacy of Mexico's ethnic past and geographic location have shaped the country and its culture. In Music in Mexico, Alejandro L. Madrid uses extensive fieldwork, interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations to guide students through modern-day music practices. Applying three themes-ethnic identity, migration, and media influences-the text explores the music that Mexicans grow up listening to and shows how these traditions are the result of long-standing transnational dialogues. Packaged with a 40-minute audio CD containing musical examples, the text features numerous listening activities that engage students with the music. ¶Music in Mexico is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present."

I'll write more about Profe Madrid's cool new tome after I get my hands on it later this week!

New Textmex Galleryblog Backsplash Featuring the Work of Gilbert Hernandez from Love and Rockets #3

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More on issue #3 of Love and Rockets here...

"Rape Victims are Felons"! Cathrynn Brown, New Mexico | Pendeja of the Month, January 2013 on the Textmex Galleryblog

A proud Republican (surprise!) member of the New Mexico 

legislature is the first Textmex Galleryblog PENDEJO/A of the month 

for 2013 for her utterly excellent pendejada legislation!

click the image for the pendeja backstory...

earlier huffpost story here...

Edward James Olmos, Mextasy!

catch the Mextasy show when

it lands in Seattle, Washington 

at the University of Washington!

Early Publicity Shots | LUPE VELEZ

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source: http://eyegiene.tumblr.com via http://www.mexicoenfotos.com/

Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in FRIDA

...a short dance sequence from the FRIDA biopic, directed by Julie Taymor, from 2002.

Raquel Welch, INTERVIEW: One Million B. C.

San Diego State University alum* Raquel Welch (née Jo Raquel Tejada), star of One Million Years B.C., and a regular on the Textmex Galleryblog appears here on the right. I love the way Wikipedia chronicles her memorable film work: "One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure/fantasy film in DeLuxe Color starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions, and was a remake of the 1940 Hollywood film One Million B.C.. It recreates many of the scenes of that film (such as one in which an allosaurus attacks a tree full of children). It was marketed with the taglines "Travel back through time and space to the edge of man's beginnings...discover a savage world whose only law was lust!" and "This is the way it was". Location scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, in late 1965. The film was released in the United States in 1967.[2] ¶Like the original film, this remake is largely ahistorical. It portrays dinosaurs and humans living together, whereas, according to the geologic time scale, the last dinosaurs became extinct roughly 65 million years BC, and Homo sapiens (modern humans) did not exist until about 200,000 years BC. Ray Harryhausen, who animated all of the dinosaur attacks using his famous stop motion technique, has stated that he did not make One Million Years B.C. for "professors" who in his opinion "probably don't go to see these kinds of movies anyway" (this was a comment he made for the DVD of the 1933 version of King Kong)."

Here's an interview with Welch on her work on the movie:

  *She never graduated, but who is counting?

Spring 2013 SDSU Literature Class: I/Eye Pledge Allegiance!

Return to I/Eye Pledge Allegiance, English 525 here...or hit the image below:

Border Patrol Invasion and Metamorphosis (or Metastasis) at la Frontera

Hector Herrera: Mexican Animator Based in Canada

Frida Kahlo's Closet, Revealed!!! via UNIVISION...

For more on this story, go here; thanks to facebook buddy Pam Fradkin for the link!

Lupe Velez Sunday

a smattering of Lupe Velez-laced lobby cards and promotional photos lifted off the world wide web this fine sunday morning, january 6, 2013...

as with most images on the textmex galleryblog, clicking makes them mucho mas bigger!