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Looking for Mexico : modern visual culture and national identity / John Mraz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mraz, John.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Mexican.
- Nationalism--Mexico.
- Nationalism.
- Photography--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Photography.
- Mass media--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Mass media.
- Arts and society--Mexico.
- Arts and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This survey of Mexico s visual culture from the mid-1800s to the present illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled books in the construction of Mexican identity.
- Contents:
- War, portraits, Mexican types, and Porfirian progress (1847/1910)
- Revolution and culture (1910/1940)
- Cinema and celebrities in the golden age
- Illustrated magazines, presente, photojournalism, and historia grafica (1940/1968)
- New visual cultures and the old battle to picture the past and present (1968/2007).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065339
- 9781283065337
- 1283065339
- 9780822392200
- 0822392208
- OCLC:
- 428151328
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