Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity

by John Mraz

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344432
• ISBN13: 9780822344438
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"