The riddle of Cantinflas (Record no. 72646)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02381nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.098 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Stavans, Ilan. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The riddle of Cantinflas |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Albuquerque : |
| Name of publisher | University of New Mexico Press, |
| Year of publication | 2012, c1998. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiv, 208 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface: �iviva el kitsch! -- Immigration and authenticity -- Mother of exiles -- A dream act deferred -- Arrival: notes from an interloper -- Unmasking Marcos -- �Iloter�a! or, the ritual of chance -- Santa Selena -- The novelist and the dictator -- The riddle of Cantinflas -- Mario Vargas Llosa: civilization versus barbarism -- The art of the ephemeral -- Sandra Cisneros: form over content -- Civility and Latinos -- Jos�e Guadalupe Posada: a profile -- Conversations: Language and empire (with Ver�onica Albin); Against biography (with Donald Yates); Redrawing the historieta (with Neal Sokol). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "A collection of essays on kitsch and high art in the Americas makes a return with thirteen new colorful conversations that deliver Stavans's trademark wit and provocative analysis. The collection has the power to go beyond common assumptions and helps us understand Mexican popular culture and its counterparts in the United States"--Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Popular culture |
| Topical Term | Kitsch |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10629190 |
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