John Mraz

Looking for Mexico

Modern Visual Culture and National Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at Mexican national identity through the lens of visual culture, analyzing how leading Mexican image-makers operated within the constraints, venues, historical contexts, and transnational influences that mediated their work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344292
• ISBN-10: 0822344297
• Artikelnr.: 25878687

Autorenporträt

John Mraz is a Research Professor with the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. He is the author of Nacho Lopez, Mexican Photographer and La Mirada Inquieta: Nuevo fotoperiodismo mexicano, 1976–1996 and a co-author of Uprooted: Braceros in the Hermanos Mayo Lens.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. War, Portraits, Mexican Types, and Porfirian Progress (1847-1910) 13
2. Revolution and Culture (1910-1940) 59
3. Cinema and Celebrities in the Golden Age 107
4. Illustrated Magazines, Presente, Photojournalism, and Historia gráfica
(1940-1968) 153
5. New Visual Cultures and the Old Battle to Picture the Past and Present
(1968-2007) 201
Notes 251
Bibliography 309
Index 333