Author: PILCHER, JEFFREY M.
Title: Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
Description: Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc, 2000. Paperback. ISBN: 0842027718. Latin American Silhouettes Series; B & W photographs; 9.02 X 6.04 X 0.64 inches; xxvi, 247 pages; Soft cover has a black spine with white lettering. Light rubbing/scuffing/bumping, this is a NEW book. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 15 b/w photographs. "The ideal biography of Cantinflas [Mario Moreno, 1911-1993] would set the comic's life within Mexico's social and political history, within Mexican popular culture, and within the context of the nations' emerging cinema..." Chronology; index.. Near Fine .

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