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Muerte! : death in Mexican popular culture / [edited by] Harvey Bennett Stafford.
Van Pelt Library PQ7207.D4 M84 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death in popular culture--Mexico.
- Death in popular culture.
- Mexico--Social life and customs.
- Mexico.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Venice, Calif. : Feral House, [2000]
- Summary:
- Luxuriously illustrated with scores of rare images and in lurid full color, this is one of the first books in the English language to examine the Mexican tabloid obsession with the dead. The art from the book will be shown in galleries in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
- Contents:
- Mayhem vendors / Harvey Bennett Stafford
- José Posada, revolution and death / Diego Rivera
- Tabloid crime / Cuauhtémoc Medina
- Centerfolds
- Hacking Mom : he attacked his mother with a machete! / Gabrial Gaspar Hernández
- Torment and death to homosexuals / Graciela Rodriguez
- Michael Jackson! : victim or sexually unbalanced! / Ruben Rangel Perez
- El semanario de lo insolito / Lorna Scott Fox
- Gore gallery
- Crossword puzzles.
- ISBN:
- 0922915598
- OCLC:
- 45670337
- Publisher Number:
- 99951625842
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