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Book Latino Image Makers in Hollywood

Download or read book Latino Image Makers in Hollywood written by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and performers face unjustified constraints in the kinds of roles available to them. Decade by decade from 1960 onward, this book analyzes important films made by or about Latinos, details the careers of Latino performers and filmmakers of the time, and analyzes how film portrayals of Latino characters and subjects connect with political and social trends of each decade. It discusses the role of gender, social class, and ethnicity in film portrayals and provides an overview of the diverse and dynamic Latino community in the United States, while celebrating a substantial and enduring contribution to Hollywood film history.

Book More Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 902 pages

Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.

Book White Ink

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen M. Hart
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781855660311
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book White Ink written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs -- the Bildungsroman, the patriarchal prison, the fairy tale, sexual politics and gender trouble --in a selection of representative women's novels from Spain and Latin America written between 1936 and the present. STEPHEN M. HART is Reader in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at University College London.

Book Arte paleol  tico en la regi  n cant  brica

Download or read book Arte paleol tico en la regi n cant brica written by César González Sainz and published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base de datos elaborada por el Departamento de Ciencias Históricas de la Universidad de Cantabria que recoge documentación gráfica sobre el arte paleolítico en el norte de España.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Antolog a de Obras Musicales

Download or read book Antolog a de Obras Musicales written by Dr. Adalberto Garc�a de Mendoza and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La Música de Haydn en la "Creación" no es patética como la de Haendel en sus Oratorios: tiene siempre ese verdor de primavera, esa sutileza que entrega la línea ondulante en la danza de la Corte, esa inspiración de frescura y optimismo que sólo se encuentra en algunos pintores del Renacimiento y en los poetas bucólicos de la Hélade y del Lacio."

Book Interiors and Narrative

Download or read book Interiors and Narrative written by Estela Vieira and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the novelistic project that fiction surfaces as a way of inhabiting the world. This study illustrates this through a comparative reading of three realist masterpieces of the Luso-Hispanic nineteenth century: Machado de Assis’s Quincas Borba (1891), Eça de Queirós’s The Maias (1888), and Leopoldo Alas’s La Regenta (1884–1885). The first full-length study to juxtapose the renowned writers, Interiors and Narrative analyzes the authors’ spatial poetics while offering new readings of their work. The book explores the important links between interiors and narrative by explaining how rooms, furnishings, and homes function as metaphors for the writing of the narrative, reflecting on the complex relation between private dwellings and human interiority, and arguing that the interior design of rooms becomes a language that gives furnishings and decorative objects a narrative life of their own. The story of homes and furnishings in these narratives creates a semiotic language that both readers and characters rely on in order to make sense of fiction and reality.

Book Non literary Fiction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Esther Gabara
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-12-02
  • ISBN : 0226822354
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Non literary Fiction written by Esther Gabara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Non-literary Fiction examines contemporary art produced in Latin America in reaction to the growing tide of neoliberalism with its purging of specific social, ethnic, and racial meanings. Over decades, military juntas throughout South and Central America (often supported by the US) have brutally restricted freedom of movement and speech and caused whole segments of their populations to "disappear." Gabara shows how many Latin American artists since the late 1950s have strategically positioned their art as "fictions" in response to the social death and unspeakable violence that undergirds their experience. By "fictions," Gabara means a kind of art that encourages a beholder or participant to create the work's meaning for herself, out of her own experience, thus engaging in fabulation. She brings together artists working across Latin America, in diaspora, and in the US to offer a pathway out of the nationalistic frameworks that generally attend Latin American studies ("Mexican art," "Brazilian art," etc.) She builds a case regarding nonliterary fictions through nuanced readings of works by many artists, from famous ones such as Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Francis Alÿs to emerging artists Abraham Cruzvillegas, Amalia Pica, and Chemi Rosado-Seijo, to Latinx artists such as Asco, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, and Ruben Ortiz Torres, engaging work within the political frameworks of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the US"--

Book Handbook of Latin American Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book World Literature

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9789715741606
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book World Literature written by and published by Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic  Travel Guide eBook

Download or read book The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic Travel Guide eBook written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a new side of the Caribbean's most popular island destination with the definitive travel guide to the Dominican Republic, researched by Rough Guides' expert authors. Escape the all-inclusive resorts and find the real Dominican Republic - surfboarding resorts and ecolodges in remote pueblos, the Caribbean's highest mountain and the sites of the Americas' first European settlements. You'll find detailed practical advice on how to get the best from your trip, too, with colour-coded maps, listings and information personally checked out by our intrepid writers. The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic covers everything from museums, shopping and art galleries in the cities to tranquil beaches and remote waterfalls, plus up-to-date descriptions of the Dominican Republic's best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants for all budgets. Whether you have time to browse detailed chapters, or need fast-fix itineraries and 'Top 5 boxes' that pick out the highlights you won't want to miss, The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic won't let you down! Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic.

Book Theater of a Thousand Wonders

Download or read book Theater of a Thousand Wonders written by William B. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive historical study of the images and shrines of New Spain, rich in stories and patterns of change over time.

Book Freddy Rinc  n

Download or read book Freddy Rinc n written by Rodolfo Iguarán Castillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante más de una década, desde 1990 a 2001, Freddy Rincón fue un sólido jugador de la Selección Nacional de Colombia. En 84 partidos con los Cafeteros, incluyendo tres torneos de la Copa del Mundo, el centrocampista marcó 17 goles. Durante su carrera, Rincón también jugó para una variedad de clubes en Colombia, Europa y Brasil. Se retiró en 2004.

Book Indianizing Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : Freya Schiwy
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-22
  • ISBN : 081354713X
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Indianizing Film written by Freya Schiwy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation. Schiwy argues that instead of solely creating entertainment through their work indigenous media activists are building communication networks that encourage interaction between diverse cultures. As a result, mainstream images are retooled, permitting communities to strengthen their cultures and express their own visions of development and modernization. Indianizing Film encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century.

Book Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family

Download or read book Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family written by Hilda Lloréns and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultural and historic junctures imbricated in the creation of re-presentations of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans by Americans (“outsiders”) and Puerto Ricans (“insiders”) during an historical epoch marked by the twin concepts of “modernization” and “progress.” The study excavates the ways in which colonial power and resistance to it have shaped representations of Puerto Rico and its people. Hilda Lloréns demonstrates how nation, race, and gender figure in representation, and how these representations in turn help shape the discourses of nation, race, and gender. Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family masterfully illustrates that as significant actors in the shaping of national conceptions of history image-makers have created iconic symbols deeply enmeshed in an “emotional aesthetics of nation.” The book proposes that images as important conveyers of knowledge and information are a fertile data site. At the same time, Lloréns underscores how colonial modernity turned global, the conceptual framework informing the analysis, not only calls attention to the national and global networks in which image-makers have been a part of, and by which they have been influenced, but highlights the manners by which technologies of imaging and “seeing” have been prime movers as well as critics of modernity.

Book Meanings and Functions of the Ruler s Image in the Mediterranean World  11th     15th Centuries

Download or read book Meanings and Functions of the Ruler s Image in the Mediterranean World 11th 15th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.