{"product_id":"fragments-of-a-golden-age-gilbert-m-joseph-9780822327073","title":"Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eFragments of a Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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 from music, tourism, television, and sports to theatre, unions, art, and magazines. \u003cbr\u003e\tEach essay in its own way addresses the fragmentation of a cultural consensus that prevailed during the \"golden age\" of post-revolutionary prosperity, a time when the state was still successfully bolstering its power with narratives of modernization and shared community. Combining detailed case studies--both urban and rural--with larger discussions of political, economic, and cultural phenomena, the contributors take on such topics as the golden age of Mexican cinema, the death of Pedro Infante as a political spectacle, the 1951 \"caravan of hunger,\" professional wrestling, rock music, and soap operas. \u003cbr\u003e\t\u003ci\u003eFragments of a Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e will fill a particular gap for students of modern Mexico, Latin American studies, cultural studies, political economy, and twentieth century history, as well as to others concerned with rethinking the cultural dimensions of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Steven J. Bachelor, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Seth Fein, Alison Greene, Omar Hernández, Jis \u0026amp; Trino, Gilbert M. Joseph, Heather Levi, Rubén Martínez, Emile McAnany, John Mraz, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Elena Poniatowska, Anne Rubenstein, Alex Saragoza, Arthur Schmidt, Mary Kay Vaughan, Eric Zolov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilbert M. Joseph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822327074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822327073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gilbert M. Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086968598783,"sku":"9780822327073","price":134.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d186212-43c1-42ec-8d32-b80c40f27350.jpg?v=1769097542","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fragments-of-a-golden-age-gilbert-m-joseph-9780822327073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}