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National camera : photography and Mexico's image environment /

In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect-a place Tejada calls the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tejada, Roberto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In National Camera, Roberto Tejada offers a comprehensive study of Mexican photography from the early twentieth century to today, demonstrating how images have shaped identities in Mexico, the United States, and in the borderlands where the two nations and cultures intersect-a place Tejada calls the shared image environment. The "problem" of photography in Mexico, Tejada shows, reveals cross-cultural episodes that are rife with contradictions, especially in the complex terms of cultural and sexual difference. Analyzing such topics as territory, sexuality, and social and ethnic relations in imag
Descripción Física:1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.
ISBN:9780816667857
0816667853