Las películas de la Revolución Mexicana en el mundo de la posguerra (1950-1973). Una propuesta metodológica

Abstract

The article offers a hypothesis about the political impact of western movies situated in revolutionary Mexico during the 1960s. Based on the data from projections of 59 movies (regardless of their origin) in Rome from 1950 to 1973, due to the genre’s popularity in Italy, and their comparison to other accessible data from the international press, the article concludes that the revolutionary westerns had an important political impact in Italy, where a significant number of them had been produced, whereas elsewhere in Europe, and especially in the US, their political impact was rather limited or hard to identify. The reason seems to be the peculiar features of Italian social and cultural reality (political violence, strong communist party, or the southern question).