History and Modern Media
A Personal Journey
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 978-0-8265-0144-8
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Buch. Softcover
2021
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 172 S.
Format (B x L): 15,2 x 22,9 cm
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0144-8
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Critical Mexican Studies
Produktbeschreibung
The book interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in U.S. academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several U.S. universities. More importantly, he reflects on what it has meant to move to Mexico and become a Mexican. Mexico is home to a thriving school of photohistorians perhaps unequaled in the world. Some were trained in Art History, and a few continue to pursue that discipline. However, the great majority work from the discipline we have here defined as 'photohistory,' which focuses on vernacular photographs, those made outside of artistic intentions, and which constitute some 98% of all photographic images.
A central premise of the book is that knowing past and other cultures is crucial in societies dominated by short-term and parochial thinking, and that today's hyper-audiovisuality requires historians to use modern media to offer their knowledge as alternatives to the 'perpetual present' in which we live.
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