From Mafalda to Los Supermachos : Latin American Graphic Humor as Popular Culture / David William Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, David William, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Foster examines major examples of graphic humor in Latin America, and especially in Argentina and Mexico, focusing exclusively on those materials that make use of the modes and formulas of mass art to reflect critically on social and cultural ideologies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1 On the Study of Popular Culture in Latin America

2 Principles of Text Production

3 Sabat: Caricature as Cultural De-Kitschification

4 Fontanarrosa's Gauchomania and Gauchophobia in Las Aventuras de Indoro Pereyra

5 Mafalda: The Ironic Bemusement

6 Sol de Noche and the Graphic Humor of Superhumor

7 Overcoming National Reality: Los Puertitas del Sr. Lopez of Trillo and Altuna

8 Los Supermachos: Golpe de estado en San Garabato

9 Acevedo and De-Disneyfication

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Book and the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-306-4

OCLC:

1378176416