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Technology and culture in twentieth-century Mexico / edited by Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman.

Van Pelt Library T24.M6 T425 2013
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Tinajero, Araceli, 1962-
Freeman, J. Brian, 1982-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Technology--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.
Technology.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.
Technological innovations.
Popular culture--Mexico--History--20th century.
Popular culture.
Mass media--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.
Mass media.
Transportation--Social aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.
Transportation.
Transportation--Social aspects.
History.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
Mexico--Social conditions--20th century.
Mexico.
Social conditions.
Mexico--Intellectual life--20th century.
Intellectual life.
Physical Description:
x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Contents:
I. Health, Food, and the Home
Material Culture, Public Health, and the Technologies of Hygiene in Modern Mexico, 1890s-1940s / Claudia Agostoni
Cooking Technologies and Electrical Appliances in 1940s and 1950s Mexico / Sandra Aguilar-Rodriguez
Domestic Technologies : Gender, Technology, and Mexican Housewives, 1930-1950 / Joanne Hershfield
II. Photography, Television, and the Internet
Technologies of Seeing : Photography and Culture / John Mraz
The Early Years of La Tele / Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante
And Television Appeared among the Mexicans / Carlos Monsivais ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
Revolt, Confusion, and the Cult of the Trivial in Mexican Cyberculture / Naief Yehya
III. Radio and Music
The Race for the Airwaves : Journalism and the Radio Industry in Modern Mexico / Viviane Mahieux
Music Culture and Resistance in Mexico, 1968-1988 : Popular Music and Mass Media / Ricardo Perez Montfort
Technology for Cultural Survival : Indigenous-Language Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century / Antoni Castells-Talens and Jose Manuel Ramos Rodriguez
IV. Railroads, Automobiles, and the Metro
Film, Time, and the Railway in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico / David M.J. Wood
"Los Hijos de Ford" : Mexico in the Automobile Age, 1900-1930 / J. Brian Freeman
Railroad Culture and Mobility in Twentieth-Century Mexico / Guillermo Guajardo and Paolo Riguzzi ; translated by Viviane Gomez
From the Primordial Cave to Postmodern Velocity : The Mexico City Subway / Juan Villoro ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
V. Literature, Art, and Architecture
Estridentismo's Technologies : Modernity's "Efficient Agents" in Post-revolutionary Mexico / Lynda Klich
Technology, Labor, and Realism : Diego Rivera's Secretaria de Educacion Publica Murals / Anna Indych-Lopez
Cyborg versus "Homo scribens" : Mexican Literary Expressions in the Era of "Technoculture" / Erja Vettenranta
Technology and the Architectural Culture of Mexico from the 1968 Olympic Games to the Onset of the New Millennium / Edward R. Burian
List of Contributors.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.
ISBN:
0817317961
9780817317966
OCLC:
824608974
Publisher Number:
99955686350

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