{"product_id":"love-and-despair-9780520392953","title":"Love and Despair","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove and Despairexplores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests, lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers, responded to the significant social and cultural shifts that formed competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico. Jaime M. Pensado demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous institutionwith key transnational networks in Latin America and Western Europewas invested in youth activism, state repression, and the counterculture from the postwar period to the more radical Sixties. Similar to their secular counterparts, progressive Catholics often saw themselves as revolutionary actors and nearly always framed their activism as an act of love. When their movements were repressed and their ideas were co-opted, marginalized, and commercialized at the end of the Sixties, the liberating hope of love often turned into a sense of despair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is one of the most original works of scholarship about Mexican political history for a generation, and fills a large gap in knowledge about the growing pains of modernity in a country where the confrontation between restless youth and an oppressive regime was bloody and unforgiving. . . This book is a tour de force—or perhaps we should say, a labour of love—and the author has made an important contribution to the history of an insurgent period that is both misunderstood and sidelined.\" * Latin American Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"[R]equired reading for scholars and graduate students of midcentury Mexico and Mexican political, religious, and media history. Scholars of any regional focus with an interest in Catholicism, the global sixties, culture during the Cold War, youth culture, and cinema should also add this book to their reading list.\" * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"The historian Jaime Pensado offers an ambitious work and sources on Mexican Catholics in the 1940s-1970s... \u003ci\u003eLove and Despair\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly become an essential reference for the religious and political history of Mexico.\" * Cahiers des Amériques latines *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE\u003cbr\u003e MODERNITY AND YOUTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Beauty, Cinema, and Female Youth Rebellion \u003cbr\u003e 2 • Student Activism during the Cold War \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO\u003cbr\u003e STATE VIOLENCE, PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICISM, AND RADICALIZATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Combative Journalism and Divisions within the Church \u003cbr\u003e 4 • Responses to the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi Massacres \u003cbr\u003e 5 • The Thorny Questions of Armed Struggle and Socialism \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE Part \u003cbr\u003e THE COUNTERCULTURE, LIBERATION, AND THE ARTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 • La Onda as Liberation and the Making of La contracultura como protesta \u003cbr\u003e 7 • Dialogue as Love and Countercultural Cinema at UNAM \u003cbr\u003e 8 • Sexual Liberation and the Redemption of Homosexuality \u003cbr\u003e 9 • Competing Interpretations of Los Cristeros and Violent Reactions to the Counterculture \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Cinematic Representations of Youth Rebellion (1941–ca. 1964) \u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Cinematic Representations of Youth, Liberation,the Counterculture, and Progressive \u003cbr\u003e Catholicism (ca. 1961–ca. 1978) \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402968146263,"sku":"9780520392953","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520392953.jpg?v=1730481990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-and-despair-9780520392953","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}