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