Technology and culture in twentieth-century Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Tinajero, Araceli, 1962-, Freeman, J. Brian, 1982-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Technology > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century. Technological innovations > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century. Popular culture > Mexico > History > 20th century. Mass media > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century. Transportation > Social aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century. Mexico > Social conditions > 20th century. Mexico > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

I. Health, Food, and the Home
Material Culture, Public Health, and the Technologies of Hygiene in Modern Mexico, 1890s-1940s / Claudia Agostoni
Cooking Technologies and Electrical Appliances in 1940s and 1950s Mexico / Sandra Aguilar-Rodriguez
Domestic Technologies : Gender, Technology, and Mexican Housewives, 1930-1950 / Joanne Hershfield
II. Photography, Television, and the Internet
Technologies of Seeing : Photography and Culture / John Mraz
The Early Years of La Tele / Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante
And Television Appeared among the Mexicans / Carlos Monsivais ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
Revolt, Confusion, and the Cult of the Trivial in Mexican Cyberculture / Naief Yehya
III. Radio and Music
The Race for the Airwaves : Journalism and the Radio Industry in Modern Mexico / Viviane Mahieux
Music Culture and Resistance in Mexico, 1968-1988 : Popular Music and Mass Media / Ricardo Perez Montfort
Technology for Cultural Survival : Indigenous-Language Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century / Antoni Castells-Talens and Jose Manuel Ramos Rodriguez
IV. Railroads, Automobiles, and the Metro
Film, Time, and the Railway in Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico / David M.J. Wood
"Los Hijos de Ford" : Mexico in the Automobile Age, 1900-1930 / J. Brian Freeman
Railroad Culture and Mobility in Twentieth-Century Mexico / Guillermo Guajardo and Paolo Riguzzi ; translated by Viviane Gomez
From the Primordial Cave to Postmodern Velocity : The Mexico City Subway / Juan Villoro ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
V. Literature, Art, and Architecture
Estridentismo's Technologies : Modernity's "Efficient Agents" in Post-revolutionary Mexico / Lynda Klich
Technology, Labor, and Realism : Diego Rivera's Secretaria de Educacion Publica Murals / Anna Indych-Lopez
Cyborg versus "Homo scribens" : Mexican Literary Expressions in the Era of "Technoculture" / Erja Vettenranta
Technology and the Architectural Culture of Mexico from the 1968 Olympic Games to the Onset of the New Millennium / Edward R. Burian
List of Contributors.