Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940

During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreei...

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Other Authors: Alex, Saragoza (Contributor), Alison, Greene (Contributor), Anne, Rubenstein (Contributor), Arthur, Schmidt (Contributor), Elena, Poniatowska (Contributor), Emile, McAnany (Contributor), Eric, Zolov (Contributor), Gilbert M., Joseph (Contributor), Heather, Levi (Contributor), Jeffrey M., Pilcher (Contributor), Jis y, Trino (Contributor), John, Mraz (Contributor), Joseph, Gilbert M. (Editor), Martinez, Ruben (Contributor), Mary Kay, Vaughan (Contributor), Omar, Hernandez (Contributor), Quetzil E., Castaneda (Contributor), Rosenberg, Emily S. (Editor), Rubenstein, Anne (Editor), Seth, Fein (Contributor), Steven J., Bachelor (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press [2001]
Series:American encounters/global interactions
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Summary:During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other state in the western hemisphere. Fragments of a Golden Age provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history, the volume's contributors-historians, popular writers, anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics-weigh in on a wealth of topics from music, tourism, television, and sports to theatre, unions, art, and magazines.Each essay in its own way addresses the fragmentation of a cultural consensus that prevailed during the "golden age" of post-revolutionary prosperity, a time when the state was still successfully bolstering its power with narratives of modernization and shared community. Combining detailed case studies-both urban and rural-with larger discussions of political, economic, and cultural phenomena, the contributors take on such topics as the golden age of Mexican cinema, the death of Pedro Infante as a political spectacle, the 1951 "caravan of hunger," professional wrestling, rock music, and soap operas.Fragments of a Golden Age will fill a particular gap for students of modern Mexico, Latin American studies, cultural studies, political economy, and twentieth century history, as well as to others concerned with rethinking the cultural dimensions of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization.Contributors. Steven J. Bachelor, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Seth Fein, Alison Greene, Omar Hernández, Jis & Trino, Gilbert M. Joseph, Heather Levi, Rubén Martínez, Emile McAnany, John Mraz, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Elena Poniatowska, Anne Rubenstein, Alex Saragoza, Arthur Schmidt, Mary Kay Vaughan, Eric Zolov
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (526 pages) 54 photographs, 1 figure
ISBN:9780822383123
DOI:10.1515/9780822383123

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