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“julia biggane”

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  • A Companion to Miguel de Unamuno

    by Julia Biggane, Ramón F. Llorens Garcia, Sandro Borzoni, Stephen G.H. Roberts, Alison Sinclair, C Alex Longhurst, Gareth Wood, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Jean-Claude Rabate0, Pedro Ribas Ribas1 ...
    As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about existence and identity (both individual and national).Widely recognised and translated during his lifetime, he was an inescapably ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Territories of the Visual in Spain and Spanish America

    Visual Studies and UK Hispanism

    Edited by Jo Evans, Julia Biggane, Nuria Triana-Toribio ...
    While studying the theory and contemporary impact of ‘embodied’ viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The three amigos

    The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

    by Deborah Shaw ...
    Series series Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
    This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón.Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • Directory of World Cinema: Spain

    Edited by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano ...
    Though loved by moviegoers worldwide, Spanish cinema has thus far suffered from a relative lack of critical attention. Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations of spectators, Directory of World Cinema: Spain returns the national cinema of Spain rightfully to the forefront with numerous full-colour stills and essays establishing the key players and genres in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Translocas

    The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

    by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto ... Read more

    $21.59 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

  • 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

  • Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation

    by Phyllis ZATLIN ...

    $20.99 USD

  • Desire Unlimited

    The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

    by Paul Julian Smith ...
    In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of thefilm circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, alwaysvisually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk toHer to the 2011 horror film The Skin I Live In. Though they are ambitious and varied in style,each is a distinctive innovation on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Companion to Spanish Cinema

    Edited by Jo Labanyi, Tatjana Pavlović ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Spanish Cinema is a bold collection of newly commissioned essays written by top international scholars that thoroughly interrogates Spanish cinema from a variety of thematic, theoretical and historic perspectives.Presents an insightful and provocative collection of newly commissioned essays and original research by top international scholars from a variety of theoretical, ... Read more

    $48.00 USD