Fragments of a Golden Age
Subtitle: the politics of culture in Mexico since 1940
By: edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov.
Contributors: Joseph, G. M. 1947-; Rubenstein, Anne.; Zolov, Eric.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Popular culture -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Mexico -- Cultural policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Assembling the fragments, writing a cultural history of Mexico since 1940 / Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein and Eric Zolov; title: Making it real compared to what? : reconceptualizing Mexican history since 1940 / Arthur Schmidt; title: Mexico's Pepsi challenge : traditional cooking, mass conception and national identity / Jeffrey M. Pilcher; title: The selling of Mexico : tourism and the state, 1929-1952 / Alex Saragoza; title: Today, tomorrow and always : the Golden Age of illustrated magazines in Mexico, 1937-1960 / John Mraz; title: Myths of cultural imperialism and nationalism in Golden Age Mexican cinema / Seth Fein; title: Bodies, cities, cinema : Pedro Infante's death as political spectacle / Anne Rubenstein; title: Discovering a land "mysterious and obvious" : the renarrativizing of postrevolutionary Mexico / Eric Zolov; title: Toiling for the "new invaders" : autoworkers, transnational corporations and working class culture in Mexico City, 1955-1968 / Steven J. Bachelor; title: El Santos and the return of the killer Aztecs! / Jis y Trino; title: Masked media : the adventures of lucha libre on the small screen / Heather Levi; title: Corazón del rocanrol / Rubén Martínez; title: Cultural industries in the Free Trade Age : a look at Mexican television / Omar Hernández and Emile McAnany; title: Cablevision(nation) in rural Yucatán : performing modernity and Mexicanidad in early 1990s / Alison Greene; title: The aura of ruins / Quetzil E. Castañeda; title: Transnational processes and the rise and fall of the Mexican cultural state / Mary Kay Vaughan.