Download or read book The Real Bull Fight An Englishman s View Of Bull Fighting written by Otis Mygatt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Death and Money in The Afternoon written by Adrian Shubert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his brilliant new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight. While references to a form of bullfighting date back to the Poem of the Cid (1040), the modern bullfight did not emerge until the early 18th century. And when it did emerge, it was far from being an archaic remnant of the past--it was a precursor of the 20th-century mass leisure industry. Indeed, before today's multimillion-dollar athletes with wide-spread commercial appeal, there was Francisco Romero, born in 1700, whose unique form of bullfighting netted him unprecedented fame and wealth, and Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, hailed as Spain's greatest matador by the New York Times after a fatal goring in 1947. The bullfight was replete with promoters, agents, journalists, and, of course, hugely-paid bullfighters who were exploited to promote wine, cigarettes, and other products. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport, and explores the bullfighters' world: their social and geographic origins, careers, and social status. Here also are surprising revelations about the sport, such as the presence of women bullfighters--and the larger gender issues that this provoked. From the political use of bullfighting in royal and imperial pageants to the nationalistic "great patriotic bullfights" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this is both a fascinating portrait of bullfighting and a vivid recreation of two centuries of Spanish history. Based on extensive research and engagingly written, Death and Money in the Afternoon vividly examines the evolution of Spanish culture and society through the prism of one of the West's first--and perhaps its most spectacular--spectator sports.
Download or read book Into The Arena written by Alexander Fiske-Harrison and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow. But if we ignore the possibility that one does outweigh the other, we fall foul of the charge of self-deceit and incoherence in our dealings with animals.' Alexander Fiske-Harrison In a remarkable and controversial book Fiske-Harrison follows the tracks of a whole bullfighting year in Spain. He trains and takes part in the sport himself. He gives us memorable portraits of bull-fighters and bulls, of owners, trainers and fans - of a whole country. Fiske-Harrison offers a fully rounded and involving portrait of an art as performed for centuries and of the arguments that dog it today.
Download or read book Bullfight written by Garry Marvin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, the author examines the character oft he fighting bull, how it is bred, the career of the matador, and what actually happens during bullfights, relating these facts to deeply rooted cultural concerns including the relationship between human and animal and the concern with masculine identity." -- BACK COVER.
Download or read book Yankees in the Afternoon written by Lyn Sherwood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader where only brave souls dare to compete--the world of bullfighting. Matadors risk serious injury or death to compete in their art, one that has been a part of Spanish and Latin American culture for centuries. Beginning with an introduction to bullfighting as it relates to American culture (not overlooking the negative views it often attracts), the book profiles 21 American matadors in detail, including women bullfighters, and novilleros (beginners). Chapters within each section are devoted to individual bullfighters. A major feature of this work are the numerous action photographs, many of which were taken by the author himself and impressively portray the flair, skill, emotion, and faces of bullfighting.
Download or read book Bulls Bullfighting and Spanish Identities written by Carrie B. Douglass and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The matador flourishes his cape, the bull charges, the crowd cheers: this is the image of Spain best known to the world. But while the bull has long been a symbol of Spanish culture, it carries more meaning than has previously been recognized. In this book, anthropologist Carrie B. Douglass views bulls and bullfighting as a means of discussing fundamental oppositions in Spanish society and explains the political significance of those issues for one of Europe's most regionalized countries. In talking about bulls and bullfighting, observes Douglass, one ends up talking not only about differences in region, class, and politics in Spain but also about that country's ongoing struggle between modernity and tradition. She relates how Spaniards and outsiders see bullfighting as representative of a traditional, irrational Spain contrasted with a more civilized Europe, and she shows how Spaniards' ambivalence about bullfighting is actually a way of expressing ambivalence about the loss of traditional culture in a modern world. To fully explore the symbolism of bulls and bullfighting, Douglass offers an overview of Spain's fiesta cycle, in which the bull is central. She broadly and meticulously details three different fiestas through ethnographic fieldwork conducted over a number of years, delineating the differences in festivals held in different regions. She also shows how a cycle of these fiestas may hold the key to resolving some of Spain's fundamental political contradictions by uniting the different regions of Spain and reconciling opposing political camps--the right, which holds that there is one Spain, and the left, which contends that there are many. Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities is an intriguing study of symbolism used to examine the broader anthropological issues of identity and nationhood. Through its focus on the political discourse of bulls and bullfighting, it makes an original contribution to understanding not only Spanish politics but also Spain's place in the modern world.
Download or read book Matadors written by Eamonn O'Neill and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the world of the Matador. Journeying across Spain, the author interviews Matadors from the top and bottom of the profession, looks at the cut-throat world of the bull breeders and witnesses the Pamplona Festival, where both animals and men have been killed in recent years.
Download or read book When Bulls Cry written by Michael A. Ogorzaly and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great News for Leeland Lake! March 2011 NEVERLAST by Leeland Lake is a winner! NEVERLAST is featured on crime writer's April Smith's website as the top finisher in March's writing contest. Read about it here: http://www.aprilsmith.net/2011/04/01/march-writing-contest-winner/ Fearing he's losing his wife, ex minor leaguer Matt Marinek seeks out an old boxing buddy from the "other" side of town. Gravel-voiced Vaughn McIntyre offers a "therapy" promising to alleviate Matt's anguish. Matt goes along, relying on athletic training methods and visualization techniques to "imagine" his wife out of his life. Now, Matt's in police custody, facing life in prison for ordering double murders he claims were "make believe." NEVERLAST is a gripping account of abandonment and betrayal that becomes a first-rate mystery as Matt seeks justice and forgiveness in Leeland Lake's newest page-turning crime novel. 289 pages. Crime/Suspense/Novel
Download or read book The Bullfight written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spanish Bull written by Mark Colenutt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bullfight is the most immediate image most foreigners have of Spain, but it is not a fight. The Matador is a name most have heard of and yet the Spanish do not call him that. It is an event that stirs passions and causes heated debate and yet this happens in the main beyond Spain's frontiers. The Spanish maintain that the majority in attendance at the Corrida de Toros are tourists, for who the experience was in fact reworked to make it more 'acceptable'. The bullring is the last remnant of the Roman games and has found favour in the New World and a very different variant in neighbouring Portugal. Great aficionados such as Hemingway and Orson Welles waxed lyrical about it. The French hispanophiles have done much to proclaim its merits and attractions, thereby forming the romantic view held by those fascinated with Spain's fiesta nacional. This brief guide then will faithfully instruct those keen to learn of this cultural pillar without which, rightly or wrongly, Spain would be less present in our collective imagination.
Download or read book A Thousand Afternoons written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Bullfighting written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anchor Books Original One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can’t refuse–an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate confrontation with death: bullfighting. The result is this remarkable book, which takes Kennedy and her readers from the living room of her Glasgow flat to the plazas del toros of Spain and inside the mesmerizing, mystifying, brutal, and beautiful world of the bullfight. Here the sport is death: matadors (literally "killers") are men and, increasingly, women who, not unlike the Roman gladiators before them, provide a spectacle to the crowd, a dance in which their own death is as present as that of the bull. Wonderfully relaying the elements of the sport, from the breeding of the bulls and the training of the matadors to the intricate choreography of the bullfight and its strange connection to the Inquisition, Kennedy meditates on a culture that we may not countenance or fully understand but which is made riveting by the precision of her prose and the passion and humor of her narrative.
Download or read book Biography of the Bulls written by Rex Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
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Download or read book The Bulls Of Pamplona written by Alexander Fiske-Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deluxe photo-print edition of the official guide to the Feria of San Fermín, the world famous annual bull-running Fiesta of Pamplona in Spain, with a foreword from the Mayor Of Pamplona, and contributions from John Hemingway, Ernest's grandson, Beatrice Welles, Orson's daughter, the best young foreign runner today, Dennis Clancey (Cpt., ret'd, 101st Airborne Division), the best foreign runner of all time Joe Distler, the Texan rodeo champion Larry Belcher, the most senior photographer of the Pamplona press corp, Jim Hollander, and the most experienced Navarran, Basque and Spanish runners Julen Madina, Miguel Ángel Eguíluz, Jokin Zuasti and Josechu López, all edited and co-authored by former amateur bullfighter and award-winning author Alexander Fiske-Harrison
Download or read book Women and Bullfighting written by Sarah Pink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women bullfighters have received much media attention over the last few years. Pink examines the rise of women in the traditionally male-dominated sport, providing a controversial re-interpretation of their role and its repercussions.
