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Looking For Mexico: Modern Visual Culture And National Identity,Used
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In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexicos modern visual culture from the U.S. invasion of 1847 to the present. Along the way, he illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and imagefilled history books in the construction of national identity, showing how Mexicans have both made themselves and been made with the webs of significance spun by modern media. Central to Mrazs book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartesdevisite, postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo Kahlo, Winfield Scott, Hugo Brehme, Agustn Vctor Casasola, Tina Modotti, Manuel lvarez Bravo, Hctor Garca, Pedro Meyer, and the New Photojournalists. He also examines representations of Mexicos past in the countrys influential picture histories: popular, largeformat, multivolume series replete with thousands of photographs and an assortment of texts.Turning to film, Mraz compares portrayals of the Mexican Revolution by Fernando de Fuentes to the later movies of Emilio Fernndez and Gabriel Figueroa. He considers major stars of Golden Age cinema as gender archetypes for mexicanidad, juxtaposing the charros (hacienda cowboys) embodied by Pedro Infante, Pedro Armendriz, and Jorge Negrete with the effacing women: the mother, Indian, and shrew as played by Sara Garca, Dolores del Ro, and Mara Flix. Mraz also analyzes the leading comedians of the Mexican screen, representations of the 1968 student revolt, and depictions of Frida Kahlo in films made by Paul Leduc and Julie Taymor. Filled with more than fifty illustrations, Looking for Mexico is an exuberant plunge into Mexicos national identity, its visual culture, and the connections between the two.
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