Looking for Mexico
Subtitle: modern visual culture and national identity
By: John Mraz.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780822344292; 9780822344438
Subjects: National characteristics, Mexican; Nationalism -- Mexico; Photography -- Social aspects -- Mexico; Mass media -- Social aspects -- Mexico; Arts and society -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War, portraits, Mexican types, and Porfirian progress (1847/1910); title: Revolution and culture (1910/1940); title: Cinema and celebrities in the golden age; title: Illustrated magazines, presente, photojournalism, and historia gráfica (1940/1968); title: New visual cultures and the old battle to picture the past and present (1968/2007).