Latin American Research Review (Oct 2017)

Rereading Postrevolutionary Mexico City: Recent Trends in Mexican Cultural Studies

  • Rubén Gallo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.214
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 52, no. 4
pp. 728 – 734

Abstract

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This essay reviews the following works: Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics. By Luis M. Castañeda. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 293. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780816690794. Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By Ben Fallaw. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xx + 329. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822353379. Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939. By Ageeth Sluis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 396. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780803293823. Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zuñiga and Mexico City’s Rebel Generation. By Mary Kay Vaughan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 279. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822357810.