Contemporary Latin American cultural studies / edited by Stephen Hart and Richard Young.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Latin America and culutral studies -- Cultural icons -- Culture as spectacle/commodity -- Culture, hegemony and opposition -- Cultural practices

This title offers a collection of essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: the theory of Latin American cultural studies; the icons of culture; culture as a commodity; culture as a site of resistance; and everyday cultural practices. The essays range across a wide gamut of theories about Latin American culture; some, for example, analyse the role that ideas about the nation - and national icons - have played in the formation of a sense of identity in Latin America, while others focus on the resonance underlying cultural practices as diverse as football in Argentina, TV in Uruguay, cinema in Brazil, and the "bolero" and soaps of modern-day Mexico