{"product_id":"fragments-of-a-golden-age-9780822327189","title":"Fragments of a Golden Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst cultural history of post-1940s Mexico to relate issues of representation and meaning to questions of power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This innovative and important book is one of the first to focus on the history of Mexico since 1940. A pioneering volume of cultural studies that will show the field how far we have come.”—John Tutino, Georgetown University\u003cbr\u003e“This marvelous book is an antidote to a generation’s worth of simplifications, romantizations, and folklorizations of Mexican culture. Throughout the book the authors always take the close view, so that we become intimate with the unfolding complexities and contradictions of Mexican culture, rather than being intimidated by them. By the end, we have come to understand Mexican culture as politics, politics as art, and art as only one of the multiple acts of creation Mexicans engage in daily to interpret, embellish, and survive their own lives. This is scholarship at its best.”—Alma Guillermoprieto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Elena Poniatowska \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e I. Reclaiming the History of Postrevolutionary Mexico \u003cbr\u003e Assembling the Fragments: Writing a Cultural History of Mexico Since 1940 \/ Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov \u003cbr\u003e Making It Real Compared to What? Reconceptualizing Mexican History Since 1940 \/ Arthur Schmidt \u003cbr\u003e II. At Play Amongst the Fragments \u003cbr\u003e Mexico’s Pepsi Challenge: Traditional Cooking, Mass Consumption, and National Identity \/ Jeffrey M. Pilcher \u003cbr\u003e The Selling of Mexico: Tourism and the State, 1929–1952 \/ Alex Saragoza \u003cbr\u003e Today, Tomorrow, and Always: The Golden Age of Illustrated Magazines in Mexico, 1937–1960 \/ John Mraz \u003cbr\u003e Myths of Cultural Imperialism and Nationalism in Golden Age Mexican Cinema \/ Seth Fein \u003cbr\u003e Bodies, Cities, Cinema: Pedro Infante’s Death as Political Spectacle \/ Anne Rubenstein \u003cbr\u003e Discovering a Land “Mysterious and Obvious”: The Renarrativizing of Postrevolutionary Mexico \/ Eric Zolov \u003cbr\u003e Toiling for the “New Invaders”: Autoworkers, Transnational Corporations, and Working-Class Culture in Mexico City, 1955–1968 \/ Steven J. Bachelor \u003cbr\u003e El Santos and the Return of the Killer Aztecs! \/ Jis y Trino \u003cbr\u003e Masked Media: The Adventures of Lucha Libre on the Small Screen \/ Heather Levi \u003cbr\u003e Corazón del Rocanrol \/ Rubén Martínez \u003cbr\u003e Cultural Industries in the Free Trade Age: A Look at Mexican Television \/ Omar Hernández and Emile McAnany \u003cbr\u003e Cablevision(nation) and Rural Yucatán: Performing Modernity and \u003ci\u003eMexicanidad\u003c\/i\u003e in the Early 1990s \/ Alison Greene \u003cbr\u003e The Aura of Ruins \/ Quetzil E. Castaneda \u003cbr\u003e III. Final Reflections \u003cbr\u003e Transnational Processes and the Rise and Fall of the Mexican Cultural State: Notes from the Past \/ Mary Kay Vaughan \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884712603991,"sku":"9780822327189","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327189.jpg?v=1722533135","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fragments-of-a-golden-age-9780822327189","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}