This special lecture will provide an overview of the origins of the “Cinema of the Mexican Revolution” and the process by which the Mexican Revolution became an aesthetic object of representation in cinema in the 1930s. The first section of the presentation will analyze the documentary films made during the 1910s, underscoring both their epistemological connection to Comtean positivism from the 19th century and the revolutionary use of these films by the military caudillos and other cinematographers such as the Alva brothers. The second section will focus on the controversy surrounding the creation of the modern Mexican cinematic tradition, one of whose paradigms was Sergei Eisenstein's incomplete film ¡Que viva México! (1930-1932). Dr. Fernando Fabio Sánchez received his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in 19th-, 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American literature, culture, and film, with an emphasis on Mexico. He teaches courses on this area and related subjects both at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Portland State University. He is presently working on a new project linked to Mexican modernity and the formation of the Mexican Republic after the War of Reform in 1857 and during the Porfirian era.