In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationship of the Mexican state to its civil society from the 1930s to the 1970s through comic books and their producers, readers, and censors, Rubenstein shows how these thrilling tales of adventure and the debates over them reveal much about Mexico s cultural nationalism and government attempts to...
In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books which were overwhelmingly popular but ...
In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationship of the Mexican state to its civil society from the 1930s to the 1970s through comic books and their producers, readers, and censors, Rubenstein shows how these thrilling tales of adventure and the debates over them reveal much about Mexico s cultural nationalism and government attempts to...
In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books which were overwhelmingly popular but ...
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...
During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than any other stat...
In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie stars, wealthy world travelers and ordinary people whose adventures were confined to a bar in the middle of town. The Mexicans we meet in these essays lived out their identities through extraordinary events--committing terrible crimes, writing world-famous songs, and ruling the...
In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of ...
