Joseph / Rubenstein / Zolov Fragments of a Golden Age

The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8312-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 526 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rubenstein, Anne

Zolov, Eric

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Foreword / Elena Poniatowska

Acknowledgements

I. Reclaiming the History of Postrevolutionary Mexico

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

II. At Play Amongst the Fragments

Mexico’s Pepsi Challenge: Traditional Cooking, Mass Consumption, 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

Corazón del Rocanrol / Rubén Martínez

Cultural Industries in the Free Trade Age: A Look at Mexican Television / Omar Hernández and Emile McAnany

Cablevision(nation) and Rural Yucatán: Performing Modernity and Mexicanidad in the Early 1990s / Alison Greene

The Aura of Ruins / Quetzil E. Castaneda

III. Final Reflections

Transnational Processes and the Rise and Fall of the Mexican Cultural State: Notes from the Past / Mary Kay Vaughan

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History at Yale University and the coeditor of Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations, both published by Duke University Press.Anne Rubenstein is Associate Professor of History, York University, Toronto and author of Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, also published by Duke University Press.Eric Zolov is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook and the author of Refried Elvis: the Rise of the Mexican Counterculture and coeditor of Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History.