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  • Film and History in Revolutionary Cuba

    by John Mraz ...
    Series series SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
    An unparalleled in-depth study of Cuban revolutionary cinema.From 1968 to 1976, energized by a postrevolutionary cultural effervescence of which cinema was the prime expression, the Cuban Film Institute made a unique, concerted effort to produce history films and to reflect on the genre. The result was twofold—a number of formally experimental, historically informed, and internationally recognized ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • History and Modern Media

    A Personal Journey

    by John Mraz ...
    Series series Critical Mexican Studies
    In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and function. He developed this method in extensive work on photojournalism; it is tested here through examining two genres: Indianist imagery as an expression of imperial, neo-colonizing, and decolonizing photography, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Photographing the Mexican Revolution

    Commitments, Testimonies, Icons

    by John Mraz ...
    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920 is among the world’s most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes—commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day—Francisco Villa galloping toward ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ascent to Glory

    How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

    by Álvaro Santana-Acuña ...
    Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Translated into dozens of languages, it ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Spanish National Cinema

    by Nuria Triana-Toribio ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National Cinema is particularly novel in its treatment of a whole range of popular cinema rarely touched on ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

    Edited by David T. Gies ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Trumpets in the Mountains

    Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba

    by Laurie Frederik, Laurie Aleen Frederik ...
    Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Comics and Memory in Latin America

    Edited by Jorge Catalá Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, James Scorer ...
    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cinema of Sara Gómez

    Reframing Revolution

    by Inés María Martiatu Terry, Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Sergio Giral, Luis García Mesa, Devyn Spence Benson, Rigoberto López, Joshua Malitsky, Ana Serra, Iván Arocha Montes de Oca, Ricardo Acosta, Alan West-Durán, Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Throughout the 1960s until her untimely death in 1974, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez engaged directly and courageously with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations promised by the Cuban Revolution.Gómez directed numerous documentary films in 10 prolific years. She also made De cierta manera (One way or another), her only feature-length film. Her films navigate complex ... Read more

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  • Americanized Spanish Culture

    Stories and Storytellers of Dislocated Empires

    Edited by Christopher J. Castañeda, Miquel Bota ...
    Americanized Spanish Culture explores the intricate transcultural dialogue between Spain and the United States since the late 19th century.The term "Americanized" reflects the influence of American cultural traits, ideas, and tendencies on individuals, institutions, and creative works that have moved back and forth between Spain and the United States. Although it is often defined narrowly as the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD