Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
By Anne Rubenstein.
Description
In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books—which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico—played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationship of the Mexican state to its civil society from the 1930s to the 1970s through comic books and their producers, readers, and censors, Rubenstein shows how these thrilling tales of adventure—and the debates over them—reveal much about Mexico’s cultural nationalism and gov...
ISBN(s)
0822321416, 9780822321415
