Beginnings of contemporary Mexico

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

This work contains fresh information located at the Sergei Eisenstein Museum and in his personal archive, both located in Moscow, which clearly indicates that there is still more to say about the Soviet director's unfinished movie, financed by Upton Sinclair. The discovery of the first version of the screenplay as well as books on Mexico and bullfight programs enables the manner in which the film developed and was structured through short stories to be reconsidered.

Deuda externa, tráfico de drogas (y el consumo estadunidense), migración y política exterior, son sólo algunos de los problemas compartidos por ambos países y motivo de análisis en este libro. Autores mexicanos y norteamericanos abordan las relaciones bilaterales, revisan los antecedentes de cada problema y hacen interesantes recomendaciones.

"Comprehensive listing of nearly 1,000 printed works from Mexico City includes bandos, constitutions, regulations, sermons, and reports of festivities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.