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Love and Despair explores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors, such as priests, lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers, responded to the significant social and cultural shifts that formed competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico. Jaime M. Pensado demonstrates how the Catholic Church as a heterogeneous institution—with key transnational networks in Latin America and Western Europe—was invested in youth activism, state repression, and the counterculture from the postwar period to the more radical Sixties. Similar to their secular counterparts, progressive Catholics often saw themselves as revolutionary actors and nearly always framed their activism as an act of love. When their movements were repressed and their ideas were co-opted, marginalized, and commercialized at the end of the Sixties, the liberating hope of love often turned into a sense of despair.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 374
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
06 June 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520392960
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"This is one of the most original works of scholarship about Mexican political history for a generation, and fills a large gap in knowledge about the growing pains of modernity in a country where the confrontation between restless youth and an oppressive regime was bloody and unforgiving. . . This book is a tour de force—or perhaps we should say, a labour of love—and the author has made an important contribution to the history of an insurgent period that is both misunderstood and sidelined."
Jaime M. Pensado is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties and coeditor of México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE
MODERNITY AND YOUTH
1 • Beauty, Cinema, and Female Youth Rebellion
2 • Student Activism during the Cold War
PART TWO
STATE VIOLENCE, PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICISM, AND RADICALIZATION
3 • Combative Journalism and Divisions within the Church
4 • Responses to the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi Massacres
5 • The Thorny Questions of Armed Struggle and Socialism
PART THREE Part
THE COUNTERCULTURE, LIBERATION, AND THE ARTS
6 • La Onda as Liberation and the Making of La contracultura como protesta
7 • Dialogue as Love and Countercultural Cinema at UNAM
8 • Sexual Liberation and the Redemption of Homosexuality
9 • Competing Interpretations of Los Cristeros and Violent Reactions to the Counterculture
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Cinematic Representations of Youth Rebellion (1941–ca. 1964)
Appendix 2. Cinematic Representations of Youth, Liberation,the Counterculture, and Progressive
Catholicism (ca. 1961–ca. 1978)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE
MODERNITY AND YOUTH
1 • Beauty, Cinema, and Female Youth Rebellion
2 • Student Activism during the Cold War
PART TWO
STATE VIOLENCE, PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICISM, AND RADICALIZATION
3 • Combative Journalism and Divisions within the Church
4 • Responses to the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi Massacres
5 • The Thorny Questions of Armed Struggle and Socialism
PART THREE Part
THE COUNTERCULTURE, LIBERATION, AND THE ARTS
6 • La Onda as Liberation and the Making of La contracultura como protesta
7 • Dialogue as Love and Countercultural Cinema at UNAM
8 • Sexual Liberation and the Redemption of Homosexuality
9 • Competing Interpretations of Los Cristeros and Violent Reactions to the Counterculture
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Cinematic Representations of Youth Rebellion (1941–ca. 1964)
Appendix 2. Cinematic Representations of Youth, Liberation,the Counterculture, and Progressive
Catholicism (ca. 1961–ca. 1978)
Notes
Bibliography
Index