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Book Los Olvidados

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  • Author : Todd Daniel DeStigter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 604 pages

Download or read book Los Olvidados written by Todd Daniel DeStigter and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Al D  a

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Al D a written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Companion to Luis Bu  uel

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  • Author : Gwynne Edwards
  • Publisher : Tamesis Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781855661080
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book A Companion to Luis Bu uel written by Gwynne Edwards and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the eyeball in Un Chien andalou (1929) one of the most memorable episodes in the history of cinema. The Forgotten Ones (1950) and He (1952), made in Mexico, were followed, from 1960, in Spain and France, by the films for which he is best known: Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (1966), Tristana (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Gwynne Edwards analyses the films in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values, and religion - suggesting that the film-maker experienced a degree of sexual inhibition surprising in a surrealist. GWYNNE EDWARDS is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Book Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City

Download or read book Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City written by Eileen Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City traces the transformations that occurred between 1934 and 1968 in Mexico through the lens of childhood. Countering the dominance of Western European and North American views of childhood, Eileen Ford puts the experiences of children in Latin America into their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Drawing on diverse primary sources ranging from oral histories to photojournalism, Ford reconstructs the emergent and varying meanings of childhood in Mexico City during a period of changing global attitudes towards childhood, and changing power relations in Mexico at multiple scales, from the family to the state. She analyses children's presence on the silver screen, in radio, and in print media to examine the way that children were constructed within public discourse, identifying the forces that would converge in the 1968 student movement. This book demonstrates children's importance within Mexican society as Mexico transitioned from a socialist-inspired revolutionary government to one that embraced industrial capitalism in the Cold War era. It is a fascinating study of an extremely important, burgeoning population group in Mexico that has previously been excluded from histories of Mexico's bid for modernity. Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City will be essential reading for students and scholars of Latin American history and the Cold War.

Book Days of Death  Days of Life

Download or read book Days of Death Days of Life written by Kristin Norget and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in the popular culture of poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Norget's work offers an original perspective on the significance of the Day of the Dead and other Oaxacan ritual practices in shaping people's values and social identities. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxacan neighborhoods, Norget includes vivid descriptions of Day of the Dead rituals.

Book Legacies of War

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  • Author : Kimberly Theidon
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-18
  • ISBN : 1478023007
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Legacies of War written by Kimberly Theidon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy, and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account the impact of violence on individual people as well as on more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable abortions.

Book Destino Final Es Orfanato  Adapted short stories in Spanish for reading  retelling and translating

Download or read book Destino Final Es Orfanato Adapted short stories in Spanish for reading retelling and translating written by Tatiana Oliva Morales and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manual is intended for schoolchildren, students and for a wide range of people studying Spanish, it consists of 5 stories and exercises for translation from English into Spanish. The exercises have keys. All material is adapted according to the © Linguistic Reanimator method. At the end of the book the stories are given in the non-adapted form. The vocabulary asset of the book are 783 Spanish words, it can be used even by the beginners. The exercises for translation correspond to B2 level.

Book Peripheral  post  Modernity

Download or read book Peripheral post Modernity written by Eleni Kefala and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there such things as peripheral modernity and postmodernity? This groundbreaking book focuses on the notions of modernity and postmodernity in two countries that never before have been studied comparatively: Argentina and Greece. It examines theories of the postmodern and the problems involved in applying them to the hybrid and sui generis cultural phenomena of the «periphery». Simultaneously it offers an exciting insight into the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Dimitris Kalokyris and Achilleas Kyriakidis, whose syncretist aesthetics are symptomatic of the mixing up of different and often opposed aesthetic principles and traditions that occur in «peripheral» locations. This book will be very useful to scholars and students of Latin American, Modern Greek and comparative literature as well as to those interested in Borges studies.

Book Luis Bunuel

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  • Author : Peter William Evans
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-07-25
  • ISBN : 183871698X
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Luis Bunuel written by Peter William Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text ranges widely over key films and moments from stages of Luis Bunuel's career. It locates and re-appraises Bunuel's films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultures with which he was identified.

Book A Companion to Luis Bu  uel

Download or read book A Companion to Luis Bu uel written by Rob Stone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s life, works, and cinematic themes. A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker’s life, works, and cinematic themes Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts on the cinema of Buñuel Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Buñuel’s son, Juan Luis Buñuel

Book The Art of Maya and the Three

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  • Author : Jorge Gutierrez
  • Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
  • Release : 2022-01-11
  • ISBN : 1506725961
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Art of Maya and the Three written by Jorge Gutierrez and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, oversized hardcover showcasing the concept and production art from the beautiful Netflix series by visionary animator and filmmaker, Jorge R. Gutierrez. Meet Maya, the eagle-warrior princess and all the dazzling characters that breathe life into lush and detailed landscapes magically inspired by Mesoamerican, Incan, and Caribbean cultures. Behold the original vision for the series taken from early sketches to final animated wonders, with detailed storyboards, color scripts, and in-depth, bilingual (English and Spanish) commentary. Welcome to the vivid world of Maya and the Three! Bilingual Captions in English and Spanish.

Book The New World

Download or read book The New World written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel

Download or read book Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel written by Sarah Leggott and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar period has received relatively little critical attention of late, despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during the Franco years. The essays in this study argue that such novels merit a fresh critical approach, and that contemporary scholarship relating to the representation of memory and trauma in literature can enhance our understanding of the postwar Spanish novel. The volume opens with essays that engage with aspects of contemporary theoretical approaches to memory in order to reveal the ways in which these are pertinent to Spanish novels written in the first postwar decades, with studies on novels by Camilo José Cela, Carmen Laforet, Arturo Barea and Ana María Matute. Its second section focuses on the representation of trauma in specific postwar novels, drawing on elements from trauma studies scholarship to discuss neglected works by Mercedes Salisachs, Dolores Medio and Ignacio Aldecoa. The final essays continue the focus on the theme of trauma and revisit works by women writers, namely Carmen Laforet, Rosa Chacel, Ana María Matute and María Zambrano, that foreground the experiences of female protagonists who are seeking to deal with a traumatic past. The essays in this volume thus propose a new direction for the study of Spanish literature of 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, enhancing existing approaches to the postwar Spanish novel through an engagement with contemporary scholarship on memory and trauma in literature.

Book Variety s Complete Home Video Directory

Download or read book Variety s Complete Home Video Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Genres  Local Films

Download or read book Global Genres Local Films written by Elena Oliete-Aldea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acute processes of globalisation at the turn of the century have generated an increased interest in exploring the interactions between the so-called global cultural products or trends and their specific local manifestations. Even though cross-cultural connections are becoming more patent in filmic productions in the last decades, cinema per se has always been characterized by its hybrid, transnational, border-crossing nature. From its own inception, Spanish film production was soon tied to the Hollywood film industry for its subsistence, but other film traditions such as those in the Soviet Union, France, Germany and, in particular, Italy also determined either directly or indirectly the development of Spanish cinema. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema reaches beyond the limits of the film text and analyses and contextualizes the impact of global film trends and genres on Spanish cinema in order to study how they helped articulate specific national challenges from the conflict between liberalism and tradition in the first decades of the 20th century to the management of the contemporary financial crisis. This collection provides the first comprehensive picture of the complex national and supranational forces that have shaped Spanish films, revealing the tensions and the intricate dialogue between cross-cultural aesthetic and narrative models on the one hand, and indigenous traditions on the other, as well as the political and historical contingencies these different expressions responded to.

Book The Zincali  Or An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

Download or read book The Zincali Or An Account of the Gypsies of Spain written by George Borrow and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Childhood and the Nation in Latin American Literature

Download or read book Childhood and the Nation in Latin American Literature written by Richard L. Browning and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This truly interdisciplinary work utilizes literature as a primary resource in examining the concept of childhood and how it is exploited and explored in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Little has been published on the history of childhood or children in Latin America. Whether equating the child's potentiality with that of the nation, or drawing an analogy between parent-child and state-citizen relationships; whether using the child as representative of marginalized sectors of society, or equating the status and role of the author in society with those of the child, in the end such literary treatments of childhood result in a dehumanization of the child performed in the name of constructing a national identity.