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  • Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative

    by Matthew Bush ...
    Series Book 74 - Ediciones de Iberoamericana
    From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through which the countries of the region conceive their respective histories and political landscapes. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Security of Self

    A Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity

    by Amarnath Amarasingam, Professor Jane Bailey, Jacquelyn Burkell, Matthew Bush, Pascale-Marie Cantin, Benoît Dupont, Sébastien Gambs, Nick Gertler, Akim Laniel-Lanani, Jordan Loewen-Colón, Atefeh Mashatan, Fenwick McKelvey, Alex Megelas, Adam Molnar, Sharday Mosurinjohn, Jonathon W. Penney, Fyscillia Ream, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair, Chris Tenove, Kristen Thomasen, Heidi Tworek ...
    Series series Law, Technology, and Media
    Cybersecurity is a powerful concept often examined through the lens of national security and organizational risks. It however demands a deeper understanding to empower our societies—and ourselves—to thrive in the digital context.This edited collection explores a new approach to human-centric cybersecurity: the security of self. It invites a paradigm shift where cybersecurity’s core purpose is to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Other Americans

    The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary

    by Matthew Bush ...
    Series series Illuminations
    Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin America—equally balanced between narratives produced in the United States and in the region itself—are ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America

    Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era

    Edited by Matthew Bush, Tania Gentic ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Grappling with the contemporary Latin American literary climate and its relationship to the pervasive technologies that shape global society, this bookvisits Latin American literature, technology, and digital culture from the post-boom era to the present day. The volume examines literature in dialogue with the newest media, including videogames, blogs, electronic literature, and social networking ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Viva la historieta

    Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization

    by Bruce Campbell ...
    ¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the free ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

    by Kathryn A. Woolard ...
    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
    Winner of the Ramon Llull International Prize Winner of the 2017 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Edward Sapir Book Prize A vibrant and surprisingly powerful civic and political movement for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. In this book, Kathryn ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • Bronze Screen

    Chicana and Chicano Film Culture

    by Rosa Linda Fregoso ...
    Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso’s The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • 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

  • Accounting for Violence

    Marketing Memory in Latin America

    Edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The cultures and practice of violence series
    Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD