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Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313254673)
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xThis pioneering study presents an overview of the Mexican comic book industry, together with in-depth studies of the best selling Mexican comic books of the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the popular superhero, adventure, humor, romance, political, detective, and Western comic books are described and analyzed in detail, and then discussed in terms of how they reflect both Mexican and United States cultures. The study concludes with a critical discussion of the media imperialism hypothesis' applicability to the Mexican comic book.
The comic book is Mexico's most popular print medium, read by all ages and socio-economic groups. Many may be surprised to learn that, in Mexico, Mexican comic books far outsell U.S. comic books in Spanish translation. The Mexican comic book is not a clone of its U.S. model, but rather a hybrid product that mixes U.S. forms and conventions with Mexican content. This work is a major contribution to the understanding of contemporary Mexican culture.Author: Harold E. Hinds,Charles M. Tatum
ISBN-10: 0313254672
ISBN-13: 9780313254673
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/22/1992
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Harold E. Hinds
xHAROLD E. HINDS, JR. is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies, Division of Social Sciences, at the University of Minnesota-Morris.
CHARLES M. TATUM is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Recently Viewed Products
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