Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity write by H. Domínguez-Ruvalcaba. This book was released on 2007-10-29. Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s.
Consuming Modernity
Consuming Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consuming Modernity write by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. This book was released on 2013-08-23. Consuming Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Positioning consumer culture in Canada within a wider international context, Consuming Modernity explores the roots of modern Western mass culture between 1919 and 1945, when the female worker, student, and homemaker relied on new products to raise their standards of living and separate themselves from oppressive traditional attitudes. Mass-produced consumer products promised to free up women to pursue other interests shaped by marketing campaigns, advertisements, films, and radio shows. Concerns over fashion, personal hygiene, body image, and health reflected these new expectations. This volume is a fascinating look at how the forces of consumerism defined and redefined a generation.
Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950
Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 write by Ellie Guerrero. This book was released on 2018-07-18. Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920-1950 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces. The book assesses how the “cosmic generation” in Mexico connected the nation-body and the dancer’s body in artistic movements between 1920 and 1950. It first discusses the role of dance in particular, the convergences of composers and visual artists in dance productions, and the allegorical relationship between the dancer's body and the nation-body in state-sponsored performances. The arts were of critical import in times of political and social transition, and the dynamic between the dancer’s body and the national body shifted as the government stance had also shifted. Second, this book examines more deeply the involvement of US artists and patrons in this Mexican arts movement during the period. Given the power imbalance between north and south, these exchanges were vexed. Still, the results for both parties were invaluable. Ultimately, this book argues in favor of the benefits that artists on both sides of the border received from these exchanges.
Haunted Families and Temporal Normativity in Hispanic Horror Films
Haunted Families and Temporal Normativity in Hispanic Horror Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Families and Temporal Normativity in Hispanic Horror Films write by Charles St-Georges. This book was released on 2018-04-20. Haunted Families and Temporal Normativity in Hispanic Horror Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world that, rather than explicitly referencing recent political violence, speak to the societal conditions and everyday normative violence that serve as preconditions for political violence. This study deconstructs intersectional processes of racially and sexually normative subject formation—and its oppositional other, ghostly erasure—that are framed by a common temporal logic, wherein full citizenship is contingent upon a nation's dominant notions of contemporaneousness and whether individuals properly inhabit prescriptive timelines of (re)productivity. St-Georges’s study explores ways in which ghosts and families are manipulated in each national imaginary as a strategy for negotiating volatility within symbolic order: a tactic that can either naturalize or challenge normative discourses. As a literary and cinematic trope, ghosts are particularly useful vehicles for the exploration of national imaginaries and the dominant or competing cultural attitudes towards a country's history, and thus, the articulation of a present political reality. The rhetorical figure of the family is also key in this process as a mechanism for expressing national allegories, for expressing generational anxieties about a nation's relationship to time, and for organizing societies and social subjects as such, interpellating them into or excluding them from national imaginaries. By proposing these specific coordinates—ghosts and families—and by mapping their relationship between Spain and Latin America, Troubling Timelines proposes a study of a temporal framework that, besides bridging the traditional area-studies divide across the Atlantic, creates a space for interdisciplinary inquiry while also responding to increasing demand for studies that focus on intersectionality.
Mexico Reading the United States
Mexico Reading the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexico Reading the United States write by Linda Egan. This book was released on 2009-07-17. Mexico Reading the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.
