Muerte!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture

by Harvey Bennett Stafford

How a culture faces death says a lot about how it faces life.

Genres: Death, Nonfiction

102 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2000

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

short, gory, grim, and joyful. Harvey Stafford thinks that Mexico’s deep and bloody Catholicism allows for its simultaneous graphic death culture, notoriously depicted in its four-alarm red-saturated murder tabloids. maybe he’s right; I tend to think that in Mexico, life’s extremely cheap.

[Michael X · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full color expose of Mexican death magazines. Many crime scenes, crushed heads and scattered limbs. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.

[Efrén Reyna · Rating 4 out of 5]

CULTO mexicano.

[melancholinary · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish it could be more detail on dissecting the sensation caused by these tabloids. However fun to read and look for people who have interest on death pictures and sensationalism.