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  • Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance

    by Trevor Boffone, Chantal Rodriguez, Teresa Marrero, Evelina Ferdandez, Carlos Celdrán, J. Ed Araiza, Alex Alpharaoh ...
    Translated by Manolo Garriga ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-AuthorA curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists?Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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    Sex and Rhythm of the City

    by Mike Gonzalez, Marianella Yanes ...
    Series series Reverb
    Born on the unlit streets of Buenos Aires, tango was inspired by the music of European immigrants who crossed the ocean to Argentina, lured by the promise of a better life. In the capital’s marginal districts, it was embraced and shaped by young men who told tales of prostitutes, petty thieves and disappointed lovers through its music and movements. Chronicling the stories told through tango’s ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Mexican Melodrama

    Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

    by Elena Lahr-Vivaz ...
    In Mexican Melodrama, Elena Lahr-Vivaz explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce the excesses of a nation characterized as a fragmented and fictitious construct. Analyzing big hits and quiet successes of both Golden Age and new-wave cinema, the author offers in each chapter a comparative reading of films from the two eras ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Collective Situations

    Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010

    Edited by Bill Kelley Jr., Grant H. Kester ...
    In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements—many of which are appearing in English for the first time—demonstrate the complex relationship between moments of political transformation and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Panza Monologues

    by Virginia Grise, Irma Mayorga ...
    The Panza Monologues is an original solo performance piece based on women's stories about their panzas—tú sabes—that roll of belly we all try to hide. Written, compiled, and collected by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga and fashioned into a tour-de-force solo performance, The Panza Monologues features the words of Chicanas speaking with humor and candor. Their stories boldly place the panza front ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Chican@ Artivistas

    Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles

    by Martha Gonzalez ...
    As the lead singer of the Grammy Award–winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely positioned to articulate the ways in which creative expression can serve the dual roles of political commentary and community building. Drawing on postcolonial, Chicana, black feminist, and performance theories, Chican@ Artivistas explores the visual, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Y Tu Mamá También

    by Paul Julian Smith ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Y Tu Mamá También (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time. Its teenage protagonists Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna went on to be ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • World Film Locations: Madrid

    Edited by Lorenzo J Torres Hortelano ...
    World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era to the present. Madrid is the film capital of the Hispanic World from the standpoint of production. Being also one of the most visited cities in the world, this book tries to discover its most ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Great Woman Singer

    Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

    by Licia Fiol-Matta ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these musicians, despite seemingly intractable demands to represent gender norms, exercised their artistic and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Behind the Mask

    Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community

    by Alfredo Mirandé ...
    The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes, and they are neither man nor woman, but rather a hybrid third gender.After seeing a video of a muxe ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

    Tejanas in Literature and Art

    Edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila, Norma E. Cantú ...
    Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts.The writings of more than fifty ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium

    And the Winners Are...

    by Thomas G. Deveny ...
    Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture side by side. The two film cultures are represented by Goya-winning films and the biggest box-office successes. By analysing the chronological trajectory of the country’s most important films over this ... Read more

    $72.89 USD