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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “carmelo esterrich”
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  • Star Wars Multiverse

    by Carmelo Esterrich ...
    Series series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
    Star Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse.Drawing from a full range of Star Wars ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Café Tacvba's Re

    by Carmelo Esterrich ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re.Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Café Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad musical genres with the pulse, the attitude, and the energy of punk and rock. Mambo and ska, samba and salsa, punk and industrial, disco and Mexican banda, are but a few of the genres in this musical ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Song and Social Change in Latin America

    by Carmelo Esterrich, John R. Baldwin, Phillip J. Chidester, Juan Carlos Ureña, Lisette Balabarca, Ignacio Corona, Diana Rodríguez Quevedo ...
    Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropicália movement in Brazil, the Nueva Canción in Central America, Rock in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru, the Vallenato in Colombia, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Concrete and Countryside

    The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture

    by Carmelo Esterrich ...
    Series series Illuminations
    From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development reigned over official discourses, the newly installed insular government, along with some ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory

    by Sandra Messinger Cypess ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.While Paz’s privileged, prize ... Read more

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  • Star Wars and Philosophy

    More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine

    by Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl ...
    Series Book 12 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral development and corruption to religious faith and pragmatism, forgiveness and redemption, and many others.The essays in this volume tackle the ... Read more

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  • Dream Nation

    Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence

    by María Acosta Cruz ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality ... Read more

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  • The World According to Star Wars

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 Washington Post BestsellerThere's Santa Claus, Shakespeare, Mickey Mouse, the Bible, and then there's Star Wars. Nothing quite compares to sitting down with a young child and hearing the sound of John Williams's score as those beloved golden letters fill the screen. In this fun, erudite, and often moving book, Cass R. Sunstein explores the lessons of Star Wars as they ... Read more

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  • Hispanic Immigrant Literature

    El Sueño del Retorno

    by Nicolás Kanellos ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in the United States. Immigrant literature uses predominantly the language of the homeland; it serves a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Jedi vs. Sith: Star Wars: The Essential Guide to the Force

    by Ryder Windham ...
    Series series Star Wars: Essential Guides
    THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE ABSOLUTE POWER AT THE HEART OF THE STAR WARS GALAXYThe Force, in the immortal words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, “surrounds us, it penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.” The fortunate few who are able to tap into this extraordinary power have studied and cultivated the full spectrum of its potential–either embracing its virtuous qualities or succumbing to its evil ... Read more

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  • What If the Star Wars Sequels Were Based on a Kurosawa Movie Just Like the Original Star Wars?

    by Brilliant Building ...
    Fans of Star Wars know full well the debt George Lucas owes to Akira Kurosawa for many of the elements that inspired Star Wars, but few have considered plundering once again from the cave of samurai movies in order to bring back the magic! This thought experiment takes us through that scenario with the point of view that wholesale plagiarism is the key to reviving the franchise. ... Read more

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  • Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film

    Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance

    by Andrea Easley Morris ...
    Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the ... Read more

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