A History of Cinema in Latin America

• Author: John King,Professor of Latin American Cultural History John King
• Publisher: Verso
• ISBN: 9781859842331
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 314
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On Latin American cinema.

Gender, Theory, and Cinema in the Third World

• Author: Diana Maury Robin,Ira Jaffe
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791439937
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 377
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Examines the work and aspirations of women filmmakers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in marginalized communities within the United States, with particular attention to issues of gender, race, nation, and aesthetics.

• Author: Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna,Andreea Marinescu
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• ISBN: 0814341071
• Category: Art
• Page: 270
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Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile

• Author: Camilo D. Trumper
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• ISBN: 0520289900
• Category: Art
• Page: 296
• View: 7995

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Politics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. Santiaguinos marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with graffiti, posters, and murals. Urban art might only last a few hours or a day before being torn down or painted over, but such activism allowed a wide range of city dwellers to participate in the national political arena. These popular political strategies were developed under democracy, only to be reimagined under the Pinochet dictatorship. Ephemeral Histories places urban conflict at the heart of Chilean history, exploring how marches and protests, posters and murals, documentary film and street photography, became the basis of a new form of political change in Latin America in the late twentieth century.

Breaking Into the Global Market

• Author: Deborah Shaw
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• ISBN: 9780742539150
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 201
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This engaging book explores Latin America cinema since 2000, an extraordinary period of international recognition. Leading specialists consider the reasons for the unprecedented commercial and critical successes of movies such as City of God, The Motorcycle Diaries, Y tu mamá también, and Nine Queens, as well as equally important films that failed to break out on the international circuit. The chapters not only offer textual analysis, but also assess the films' social context and production conditions. Their well-rounded analyses offer a rich picture of the state of contemporary filmmaking in a range of Latin American countries. Nuanced and thought-provoking, the readings in this book will provide invaluable interpretations for students and scholars of Latin American film.

• Author: N.A
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Women's studies
• Page: N.A
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From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream

• Author: Desirée J. Garcia
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• ISBN: 0813574277
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 272
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Movie musicals are among the most quintessentially American art forms, often celebrating mobility, self-expression, and the pursuit of one’s dreams. But like America itself, the Hollywood musical draws from many distinct ethnic traditions. In this illuminating new study, Desirée J. Garcia examines the lesser-known folk musicals from early African American, Yiddish, and Mexican filmmakers, revealing how these were essential ingredients in the melting pot of the Hollywood musical. The Migration of Musical Film shows how the folk musical was rooted in the challenges faced by immigrants and migrants who had to adapt to new environments, balancing American individualism with family values and cultural traditions. Uncovering fresh material from film industry archives, Garcia considers how folk musicals were initially marginal productions, designed to appeal to specific minority audiences, and yet introduced themes that were gradually assimilated into the Hollywood mainstream. No other book offers a comparative historical study of the folk musical, from the first sound films in the 1920s to the genre’s resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s. Using an illustrative rather than comprehensive approach, Garcia focuses on significant moments in the sub-genre and rarely studied films such as Allá en el Rancho Grande along with familiar favorites that drew inspiration from earlier folk musicals—everything from The Wizard of Oz to Zoot Suit. If you think of movie musicals simply as escapist mainstream entertainment, The Migration of Musical Film is sure to leave you singing a different tune.

Film and Society from 1895 to the Present

• Author: James Chapman
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• ISBN: 1861895747
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 480
• View: 4136

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The cinema has been the pre-eminent popular art form of the 20th century. In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman examines the relationship between film and society in the modern world: film as entertainment medium, film as a reflection of national cultures and preoccupations, film as an instrument of propaganda. He also explores two interrelated issues that have recurred throughout the history of cinema: the economic and cultural hegemony of Hollywood on the one hand, and, on the other, the attempts of film-makers elsewhere to establish indigenous national cinemas drawing on their own cultures and societies. Chapman examines the rise to dominance of Hollywood cinema in the silent and early sound periods. He discusses the characteristic themes of American movies from the Depression to the end of the Cold War especially those found in the western and film noir – genres that are often used as vehicles for exploring issues central to us society and politics. He looks at national cinemas in various European countries in the period between the end of the First World War and the end of the Second, which all exhibit the formal and aesthetic properties of modernism. The emergence of the so-called "new cinemas" of Europe and the wider world since 1960 are also explored. "Chapman is a tough-thinking, original writer . . . an engaging, excellent piece of work."—David Lancaster, Film and History

Impossible Cartographies

• Author: Michael Goddard
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• ISBN: 0231850506
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 224
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Raúl Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work, up to his death in 2011; ranging from his earliest work in Chile to high-budget 'European' costume dramas culminating in Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). It does so by treating Ruiz's work—with its surrealist, magic realist, popular cultural, and neo-Baroque sources—as a type of 'impossible' cinematic cartography, mapping real, imaginary, and virtual spaces, and crossing between different cultural contexts, aesthetic strategies, and technical media. It argues that across the different phases of Ruiz's work identified, there are key continuities such as the invention of singular cinematic images and the interrogation of their possible and impossible combinations.

• Author: Thomas H. Holloway
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781444391640
• Category: History
• Page: 544
• View: 908

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The Companion to Latin American History collects the work of leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America. Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the history of Latin America Written by the top international experts in the field 28 chapters come together as a superlative single source of information for scholars and students Recognizes the breadth and diversity of Latin American history by providing systematic chronological and geographical coverage Covers both historical trends and new areas of interest

• Author: Michael Pigott,Santiago Oyarzabel
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• ISBN: 1783203587
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 128
• View: 9867

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Looks at Buenos Aires (the second-largest in South America) as a stage for sociopolitical transformations and a key location in the international imagination as a site of cultural export. This book uncovers the many reasons why Buenos Aires attracts not only tourists but also artists and filmmakers who explore the city and its iconography.

Global Women's Issues and Knowledge

• Author: Cheris Kramarae,Dale Spender
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1135963150
• Category: Reference
• Page: 2050
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For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.

• Author: Stephen M. Hart
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• ISBN: 1855661063
• Category: Literary Criticism
• Page: 227
• View: 8911

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A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

• Author: James Alexander Robertson
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Electronic journals
• Page: N.A
• View: 850

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Includes "Bibliographical section".

Stories

• Author: Joanne Harris
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• ISBN: 0061970042
• Category: Fiction
• Page: 304
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Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the outrageous, the magical, and, sometimes, the eerily haunting. Wolf men, dolphin women, defiant old ladies, and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear -- in Jigs & Reels the miraculous goes hand in hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive, and the disturbing are never more than one step away. Whether she's exploring the myth of beauty, the pain of infidelity, or the wonder of late-life romance, Joanne Harris once again proves herself a master of the storyteller's trade.

Critical Constructions of Latin American Cinema

• Author: Ann Marie Stock
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Motion pictures
• Page: 380
• View: 7488

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a man overcomes the tragic aftermath of childhood sexual abuse

• Author: Richard Berendzen,Laura Palmer
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Social Science
• Page: 301
• View: 8200

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A former president of American University recounts his shattering experiences as a child victim of sexual abuse and incest

The Politics of Public Space and Public Art in Santiago Chile, 1970-1973

• Author: Camilo Daniel Trumper
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category:
• Page: 736
• View: 9382

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Official Strategy Guide

• Author: Dan Birlew
• Publisher: Brady
• ISBN: 9780744002850
• Category: Games
• Page: 347
• View: 7818

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Presents a guide to the characters, missions, strategy, and accessories of the video game.

Dependency and Development

• Author: Jorge Schnitman
• Publisher: Ablex Pub
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Business & Economics
• Page: 134
• View: 9859

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