Mraz, John <br/><br/>
Looking for Mexico :   modern visual culture and national identity 
/ John Mraz 
 - London  : Duke University Press  , 2009 
 - 343 p.  : illus.  ; 24 cm 
<br/><br/> 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 modern media. Central to Mraz's book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite, postcards, and illustrated magazines. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822344438 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War, portraits---Mexican types, and Porfirian progress---1847-1910<br/>Revolution and culture---1910-1940<br/>Cinema and celebrities in the golden age<br/>Illustrated magazines, photojournalism, and historia gráfica---1940-1968<br/>New ocular cultures and the old battle to visualize the past and present---1968-2007
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 305.868 MRA