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Looking for Mexico : Modern Visual Culture and National Identity by John Mraz (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822344432
ISBN-139780822344438
eBay Product ID (ePID)71758451
Product Key Features
Book TitleLooking for Mexico : Modern Visual Culture and National Identity
Number of Pages277 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicLatin America / Mexico, Media Studies, General, History
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Social Science, Photography, History
AuthorJohn Mraz
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
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LCCN2008-055245
Reviews"John Mraz contributes new insights to a growing body of literature that examines the role of photography and film within the "renaissance" that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910…. [T]he book is written in an easily accessible and engaging style…. Looking for Mexico brings together a provocative array of images and image-makers." - Adriana Zavala, Visual Resources, "Mraz not only displays an encyclopedic knowledge of Mexican photography; he also proposes extremely original, insightful, and creative ways of organizing and making sense of this vast archive. . . . Looking for Mexico is brilliantly researched, passionately argued, and beautifully written. It will become the definitive history of Mexican photography. No other available book is as broad and as informed." - Rubn Gallo, Hispanic Review, "Mraz's book constitutes a significant step in our understanding of Mexican photography in the twentieth-century Mexican landscape. The sections on contemporary photographers, from Hector Garcia to Pedro Meyer and from Manuel Alvarez Bravo to the rise of photojournalism in Mexico, are particularly noteworthy." - Juan Javier Pescador, Hispanic American Historical Review, "To paraphrase Octavio Paz, Mexican identity is constructed of distinct races and languages, as well as of various levels of history. Mraz's thoughtful treatment of this profound idea benefits scholars, students, and other interested readers with its near comprehensive, but necessarily abbreviated, coverage of a rich and colorful topic." - Charles Heath, H-Net Reviews, “No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico’s vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arch from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish.â€�- Eric Zolov , author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture, "John Mraz contributes new insights to a growing body of literature that examines the role of photography and film within the "renaissance" that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.... [T]he book is written in an easily accessible and engaging style.... Looking for Mexico brings together a provocative array of images and image-makers." - Adriana Zavala, Visual Resources, "Mraz not only displays an encyclopedic knowledge of Mexican photography; he also proposes extremely original, insightful, and creative ways of organizing and making sense of this vast archive. . . . Looking for Mexico is brilliantly researched, passionately argued, and beautifully written. It will become the definitive history of Mexican photography. No other available book is as broad and as informed." - Rub n Gallo, Hispanic Review, " Looking for Mexico represents a significant advance in the fields of visual culture and Mexican history that should be read by all those interested in the construction of national identities in Latin America and beyond. . . . Accessible, engaging, and innovative, Looking for Mexico will surely find a well-deserved place on many undergraduate and graduate course outlines and become a standard work on the topic." - Amelia M. Kiddle, The Latin Americanist, "Mraz's ambitious study remains of great value in providing an overview that enables the reader to make connections across a vast terrain of photographic and cinematic practice, and will no doubt inspire further investigation into the still underdeveloped field of Latin American visual studies." - Pippa Oldfield, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, "No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico's vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arc from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish."--Eric Zolov, author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, "Mraz not only displays an encyclopedic knowledge of Mexican photography; he also proposes extremely original, insightful, and creative ways of organizing and making sense of this vast archive. . . . Looking for Mexico is brilliantly researched, passionately argued, and beautifully written. It will become the definitive history of Mexican photography. No other available book is as broad and as informed." - Rubén Gallo, Hispanic Review, "No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico's vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arc from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish."-Eric Zolov, author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, "No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico's vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arch from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish."-- Eric Zolov , author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture, "No one is better qualified to present and analyze Mexico's vast visual archive than John Mraz, and he does so with great finesse. Drawing a broad arch from the daguerreotype to digitalization, he successfully links the past to the present in ways that only one as knowledgeable as he could accomplish."- Eric Zolov , author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of Mexican Counterculture, "[T]he scope, accessibility, and argument of this important book make it a great choice for use in a course on visual culture, or a more general course on modern Mexico." - John Lear, The Americas
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal305.868/72
Table Of ContentAuthor'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
SynopsisIn Looking for Mexico , a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico's 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 image-filled 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 Mraz's book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite , postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo Kahlo, Winfield Scott, Hugo Brehme, Agust n V ctor Casasola, Tina Modotti, Manuel lvarez Bravo, H ctor Garc a, Pedro Meyer, and the New Photojournalists. He also examines representations of Mexico's past in the country's influential picture histories: popular, large-format, 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 Fern ndez 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 Armend riz, and Jorge Negrete with the effacing women: the mother, Indian, and shrew as played by Sara Garc a, Dolores del R o, and Mar a F lix. 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 Mexico's national identity, its visual culture, and the connections between the two., In Looking for Mexico , a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico's 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 image-filled 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 Mraz's book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite , postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo Kahlo, Winfield Scott, Hugo Brehme, Agustín Víctor Casasola, Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Héctor García, Pedro Meyer, and the New Photojournalists. He also examines representations of Mexico's past in the country's influential picture histories: popular, large-format, 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 Fernández 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 Armendáriz, and Jorge Negrete with the effacing women: the mother, Indian, and shrew as played by Sara García, Dolores del Río, and María Félix. 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 Mexico's national identity, its visual culture, and the connections between the two., This survey of Mexicos visual culture from the mid-1800s to the present illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled books in the construction of Mexican identity.
LC Classification NumberF1210
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