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  • Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America

    Children and Adolescents in Film

    by Carolina Rocha, Georgia Seminet ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies polarized by and still grappling with the consequences of political divisions. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Masculinities in Contemporary Argentine Popular Cinema

    by Carolina Rocha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Examines contemporary cinematic representations of Argentine masculinities, the social construction of gender, and the financing of domestic film production following Argentina's 1990 change to a neo-liberal economic model. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema

    by Carolina Rocha, Jack A. Draper III, Sophie Dufays, Amanda Holmes, Alejandra Josiowicz, Juli A. Kroll, Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Rachel Randall, Laura Senio Blair, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir0, Traci Roberts-Camps1, Georgia Seminet2, Sarah Thomas4 ...
    Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such questions as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do plots and film practices represent children’s subjectivity and agency? Childhood studies has demonstrated the importance of examining ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media

    Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage

    by Gabriela Antunes, Naomi Pueo Wood, Leonardo Custódio, Aline Frey, María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez, Anthony Pahnke, Cacilda Rêgo, Carolina Rocha ...
    This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and going into preparations for and recovery from the upcoming mega events, both the 2014 World Cup and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Modern Argentine Masculinities

    Edited by Carolina Rocha ...
    Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as contemporary popular songs, and offer a wide-ranging picture of the performance of masculinity as it has evolved and adapted since the consolidation of Argentina as a modern nation. This captivating ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Resisting Neoliberalism?

    Edited by Claudia Sandberg, Carolina Rocha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Contemporary Latin American Cinema investigates the ways in which neoliberal measures of privatization, de-regularization and austerity introduced in Latin America during the 1990s have impacted film production and film narratives. The collection examines the relationship between economic policies and the films that depict recent transformations in many Latin American countries, demonstrating how ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Child in World Cinema

    by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Lennon Yao-chung Chang, Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Jessica Davidson, Paromita Deb, Yoad Eliaz, Einat Baram Eshel, Swarnavel Eswaran, Negin Golravesh Fekry, Walaa Ghanayim, Omri Grinberg, Caroline Isabel Grose, Seyyed Mohsen Habibi, Kelly Hansen, Belinda He, Kobe Chan Yan Chuen, Caroline Larde, Sin Wen Lau, Fabiana de Amorim Marcello, Kenta McGrath, Kaori Mori Want, Mina Rezaei, Carolina Rocha, Christine Singer, Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Paula Uglione, Onoriu Colacel, Christa Jones ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

    by Joanna Page ...
    There has been a significant surge in recent Argentine cinema, with an explosion in the number of films made in the country since the mid-1990s. Many of these productions have been highly acclaimed by critics in Argentina and elsewhere. What makes this boom all the more extraordinary is its coinciding with a period of severe economic crisis and civil unrest in the nation. Offering the first in ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Breaking into the Global Market

    Edited by Deborah Shaw ...
    This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition for the region's cinema. Each chapter assesses an individual film, with some contributors considering the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Everynight Life

    Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

    Edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado, José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Cinemachismo

    Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film

    by Sergio de la Mora ...
    After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men were held out as desired and/or abject models not only in governmental rhetoric and propaganda, but also in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD