Serial Mexico

Author : Amy E. Wright
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826505637

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Serial Mexico by Amy E. Wright Pdf

No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—tales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their subsequent retelling in comics, radio, and television soap operas. Wright’s multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition: examining the nostalgic tales reimagined in novelas, radionovelas, telenovelas and onwards, and examining the foundational figures who have been woven into society. This panorama shows the Mexican experience of storytelling from the country’s early days until now, showcasing protagonists that mock authority, make light of hierarchy, and embrace the hybridity and mestizaje of Mexico. These tales reflect on and respond to crucial cultural concerns such as family, patriarchy, gender roles, racial mixing, urbanization, modernization, and political idealism. Serial Mexico thus examines how serialized storytelling’s melodrama and sensationalism reveals key political and cultural messaging. In a detailed yet accessible style, Wright describes how these stories have continued to morph with current times’ concerns and social media. Will tropes and traditions carry on in new and reimagined serial storytelling forms? Only time will tell. Stay tuned for the next episode.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : UOM:39015030248416

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Susana Vargas Cervantes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479853083

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The Little Old Lady Killer by Susana Vargas Cervantes Pdf

The surprising true story of Mexico’s hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of whom had been strangled in their homes with a stethoscope by someone posing as a government nurse. When Juana Barraza Samperio, a female professional wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), was arrested—and eventually sentenced to 759 years in prison—for her crimes as the Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), her case disrupted traditional narratives about gender, criminality, and victimhood in the popular and criminological imagination. Marshaling ten years of research, and one of the only interviews that Juana Barraza Samperio has given while in prison, Susana Vargas Cervantes deconstructs this uniquely provocative story. She focuses, in particular, on the complex, gendered aspects of the case, asking: Who is a killer? Barraza—with her “manly” features and strength, her career as a masked wrestler in lucha libre, and her violent crimes—is presented, here, as a study in gender deviance, a disruption of what scholars call mexicanidad, or the masculine notion of what it means to be Mexican. Cervantes also challenges our conception of victimhood—specifically, who “counts” as a victim. The Little Old Lady Killer presents a fascinating analysis of what serial killing—often considered “killing for the pleasure of killing”—represents to us.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89116883331

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Joseph G. Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010610884

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Doniphan's Epic March by Joseph G. Dawson Pdf

In 1846-1847, a ragtag army of 800 American volunteers marched 3,500 miles across deserts and mountains, through Indian territory and into Mexico. There they handed the Mexican army one of its most demoralizing defeats and helped the United States win its first foreign war. Their leader Colonel Alexander Doniphan, also a volunteer, was a "natural soldier" of towering stature who became a national hero in the wake of his wartime exploits. Doniphan was a small-town Missouri lawyer untrained in military matters when he answered President Polk's call for volunteers in the war with Mexico. Working from a host of primary sources, Joseph Dawson focuses on Doniphan's extraordinary leadership and chronicles how the colonel and his 1st Missouri Mounted Regiment helped capture New Mexico and went on to invade Chihuahua. Contending with wildfires, sandstorms, poor provisions, and the threat of attack from Apaches, they eventually came face-to-face with the formidable cannon and cavalry of a much larger Mexican force. Yet, at the Battle of Sacramento, these hardy volunteers outflanked General Jose Heredia's army and claimed a stunning American victory on foreign soil. Dawson explores and analyzes the many facets of Doniphan's exploits, from the decision to proceed to Chihuahua in the wake of the Taos Revolt to the tactics that shaped his victory at Sacramento, describing that battle in heart-stopping detail. He tells how Doniphan's legal expertise enabled him to supervise America's first military government administering a conquered land at Santa Fe and highlights Doniphan's remarkable cooperation with U.S. Army officers at a time when antagonism typified relationships between volunteers and regulars. He also introduces readers to other key personalities of the campaign, from fellow officers Stephen W. Kearny and Meriwether L. Clark to James Kiker, the controversial scout whom Doniphan reluctantly trusted. Dawson's thorough account captures the expansionist mood of America in the mid-nineteenth century and helps us understand how American soldiers were motivated by the idea of Manifest Destiny. His portrait of Doniphan and his troops reinforces the importance of the citizen-soldier in American history and provides a new window on the war that changed forever the hopes and dreams of our border nations.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89048464994

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Ana Sabau
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477324240

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Riot and Rebellion in Mexico by Ana Sabau Pdf

2023 Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system. Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country. Riot and Rebellion in Mexico traces this race-based narrative through three historical flashpoints: the Bajío riots, the Haitian Revolution, and the Yucatan’s caste war. Sabau shows how rebellions were treated as racially motivated events rather than political acts and how the racialization of popular and indigenous sectors coincided with the construction of “whiteness” in Mexico. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Sabau demonstrates how the race war paradigm was mobilized in foreign and domestic affairs and reveals the foundations of a racial state and racially stratified society that persist today.

Author : William A. Dobak
Publisher : Department of the Army
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015090586671

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Freedom by the Sword by William A. Dobak Pdf

From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale. Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops and organized in segregated regiments led by white officers, some of these soldiers guarded army posts along major rivers; others fought Confederate raiders to protect Union supply trains; and still others took part in major operations like the siege of Petersburg and the battle of Nashville. After the war, many of the black regiments garrisoned the former Confederacy to enforce federal Reconstruction policy. This book tells the story of these soldiers' recruitment, organization, and service.

Author : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Newspapers
ISBN : UOM:39015082903884

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The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Pdf

Author : Geoff Mayer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476643076

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Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination by Geoff Mayer Pdf

Melodrama is the foundation of American cinema. It is, however, a poorly understood term. While it is a pervasive and persuasive dramatic mode, it is not tied to any specific moral or ideological system. It is not a singular genre; rather, it operates as a "genre generating machine" capable of determining the aesthetics and structure of the drama within many genres. Melodrama centers the conflict around the clash between good and evil and provides a sense of poetic justice--but the specific values embedded in notions of good and evil are determined by the culture, and they shift from nation to nation, region to region, and period to period. This book explores the "populist" westerns of the 1930s, the propaganda films that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the popularity of Sax Rohmer's master villain Fu Manchu. "Melodramas of passion" and film noir also offer a challenge to melodrama with its seemingly alienated protagonists and downbeat endings. Yet, with few exceptions, Hollywood was able to assimilate these genres within its melodramatic imagination.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Darren L. Ivey
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574417012

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The Ranger Ideal Volume 1 by Darren L. Ivey Pdf

Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the seven inductees who served Texas before the Civil War. He begins with Stephen F. Austin, “the Father of Texas,” who laid the foundations of the Ranger service, and then covers John C. Hays, Ben McCulloch, Samuel H. Walker, William A. A. “Bigfoot” Wallace, John S. Ford, and Lawrence Sul Ross. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who fought to tame a land with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 1 is the first of a planned three-volume series covering all of the Texas Rangers inducted in the Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.

Author : Paula Rebert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007385611

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Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857 by Paula Rebert Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1750 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435008528515

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Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Government publications
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0039194744

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Catalogue of the Library of the United States Senate by United States. Congress. Senate. Library Pdf