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Mexican Cinema
Mexican filmmaking is traced from its early beginnings in 1896 to the present in this book. Of particular interest are the great changes from 1990 to 2004: the confluence of talented and dedicated filmmakers, important changes in Mexican cinematic infrastructure and significant social and cultural transformations. From Nicolas Echevarria's Cabeza de Vaca (1991), to the 1992 releases of Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro's Cronos and Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate, to Alfonso Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien (2001), this work provides a close look at Mexican films that received international commercial success and critical acclaim and put Mexico on the cinematic world map. Arranged chronologically, this edition (originally published in 2005) covers the entire scope of Mexican cinema. The main films and their directors are discussed, together with the political, social and economic contexts of the times.
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity. Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The essays in this volume work to realize the radical societal democratization that shows up in amateur cinema around the world. In particular, diverse contributors highlight the significance of amateur filmmaking, the exhibition of amateur films, the uses and availability of film technologies, and the inventive and creative approaches of filmmakers and advocates of amateur film. Together, these essays shed new light on alternative cinema in a wide range of cities and countries where amateur films thrive in the shadow of commercial and conventional film industries.
The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas
Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally, questions about the precarious can be traced in cultural and archival policies, film legislations, as well as in thematic and aesthetic choices. While conventional definitions of the precarious have been associated with notions of scarcity and insecurity, this volume looks at precariousness from a non-monolithic angle, exploring its productivity and potential for original, critical approaches, with the aim of providing new readings to the variedly rich and complex cinemas of the Americas.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
This fourth edition of Roderic Camp's highly respected Mexican Political Biographies is an updated comprehensive biographical directory of leading state and national politicians in Mexico, covering the years 1935–2009. The original edition, published in 1976, was the first and only comprehensive biographical work on contemporary political figures in any language and served as the prototype for the Mexican government's brief foray into its own official biographical directory. The Mexican Supreme Court has cited every biography of justices in the third edition as the basis of its biographies in the late 1980s. With updates of the existing biographies and appendices, plus almost 1,000 additio...
TVMorfosis 2
Pantallas, ecosistema de medios, TV, redes sociales, convergencia, transmedia, meta-medio, culturas participativas, nube, experiencias, consumo, ciudadanía, audiencias, usuarios y dispositivos móviles, entre otros elementos, constituyen la atmósfera de la era digital en la que se desenvuelve este libro. Auscultando el presente, oteando el pasado, vislumbrando el futuro, los autores de esta obra analizan la metamorfosis de la TV en el nuevo escenario comunicacional. Las reflexiones, en su conjunto, se alejan de posiciones tecnofílicas y tecnofóbicas. Ahora bien, retomando una de las preguntas que plantea Carlos Scolari, ¿Podemos seguir definiendo estas prácticas de consumo audiovisual como "ver televisión"? No hay respuestas definitivas ni certezas absolutas, en todo caso, este libro ofrece una serie de coordenadas desde donde pensar la condición comunicacional contemporánea. Lo convergente, afirma Guillermo Orozco, como tendencia y fenómeno contemporáneo distingue y a la vez define mucha de la interacción que todos tenemos con los diferentes dispositivos tecnológicos a nuestro alcance.
La violencia nuestra de cada día
La violencia es en nuestro mundo actual como una niebla que empaña la vista y torna en gris todo lo que nos rodea. Invade nuestro entorno poco a poco, se filtra silenciosa en todos los rincones. Nadie sabe, o no quiere saber, de dónde viene, dónde se originó. Nos pesa enfrentar que su raíz está dentro del sujeto, del Yo abandonado a su suerte ante un mundo hostil, difícil de remontar, y sólo cuando estalla en grandes proporciones parece preocuparnos de verdad. Blanca Aguilar Plata
"Que Por Eso Es Que He Vuelto"
La piedad sencilla de dos humildes mujeres, que regresan a su pueblo despus del conflicto cristero, permite a Susana San Juan dejar su sepultura la noche de muertos. Se dirige a Comala, es su destino, all est Pedro Paramo esperndola desde siempre. En este lugar sin tiempo del universo Rulfiano, estos dos fantasmas debern despojarse de sus temores, encontrar el amor en sus almas perdidas, para al fin descansar y salvarse.
Dramatized Societies
Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception and international theories of textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen.
