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Fragments of a Golden Age : the politics of culture in Mexico since 1940 / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Mexico--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Mexico--Cultural policy.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (527 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power; it includes essays on popular music, unions, TV, tourism, cinema, wrestling, and illustrated magazines.
- Contents:
- Assembling the fragments, writing a cultural history of Mexico since 1940 / Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein and Eric Zolov
- Making it real compared to what? : reconceptualizing Mexican history since 1940 / Arthur Schmidt
- Mexico's Pepsi challenge : traditional cooking, mass conception and national identity / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
- The selling of Mexico : tourism and the state, 1929-1952 / Alex Saragoza
- Today, tomorrow and always : the Golden Age of illustrated magazines in Mexico, 1937-1960 / John Mraz
- Myths of cultural imperialism and nationalism in Golden Age Mexican cinema / Seth Fein
- Bodies, cities, cinema : Pedro Infante's death as political spectacle / Anne Rubenstein
- Discovering a land "mysterious and obvious" : the renarrativizing of postrevolutionary Mexico / Eric Zolov
- Toiling for the "new invaders" : autoworkers, transnational corporations and working class culture in Mexico City, 1955-1968 / Steven J. Bachelor
- El Santos and the return of the killer Aztecs! / Jis y Trino
- Masked media : the adventures of lucha libre on the small screen / Heather Levi
- Corazon del rocanrol / Ruben Martinez
- Cultural industries in the Free Trade Age : a look at Mexican television / Omar Hernandez and Emile McAnany
- Cablevision(nation) in rural Yucatan : performing modernity and Mexicanidad in early 1990s / Alison Greene
- The aura of ruins / Quetzil E. Castaneda
- Transnational processes and the rise and fall of the Mexican cultural state / Mary Kay Vaughan.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063076
- 9781283063074
- 1283063077
- 9780822383123
- 0822383128
- OCLC:
- 213455268
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