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9780822321088

Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822321088

  • ISBN10:

    0822321084

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"With this study Anne Rubenstein breaks new ground in Mexican cultural history, giving comic books the political and social importance they deserve in the making of Mexican national society and PRI hegemony after 1940. Her gendered analysis is refreshing and exemplary."--Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Illinois at Chicago

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(12)
Chapter One The Creation of Mexican Comic Books, 1934-1952
13(28)
Chapter Two Home-Loving and without Vices: "Modernity," "Tradition." and the Comic Book Audience
41(34)
Chapter Three The Uses of Tradition: Conservative Opposition to Comic Books
75(34)
Chapter Four The Uses of Failure: La Comision Calificadora, 1944-1976
109(24)
Chapter Five Comic Books Respond to Their Critics, 1944-1976
133(30)
Conclusion The Lessons of Cultural Conservatism 163(4)
Notes 167(38)
Index 205

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