Forgotten cinemas: The institutional uses of documentary in twentieth-century Mexico (1930–80)

Abstract

The special issue presented in this introduction focuses on the uses of documentary cinema in Mexico between 1930 and 1980 as part of the wider cultural policy of a variety of institutions that made films to express particular discourses or to promote their agendas. The institutions under study include state agencies, international bodies, private media companies and marginal political organizations.