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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “collin mckinney”
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  • Spanish Graphic Narratives

    Recent Developments in Sequential Art

    Edited by Collin McKinney, David F. Richter ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), and progressive contemporary politics, both the recent graphic novel production in Spain and the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    Fringe Discourses

    by Ryan A. Davis, Alicia Cerezo Paredes, Marta Ferrer Gómez, Jerry Hoeg, Travis Landry, Kevin Larsen, Juan Carlos Martín, Collin McKinney, Dale J. Pratt0, Elizabeth Smith Rousselle1 ...
    The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape that, though ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil

    by David William Foster ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El Eternauta. After Oesterheld was “disappeared” under the military dictatorship, El Eternauta became one ... Read more

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  • 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

    $81.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • Mexican Melodrama

    Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave

    by Elena Lahr-Vivaz ...
    In Mexican Melodrama, Elena Lahr-Vivaz explores the compelling ways that new-wave Mexican directors use the tropes and themes of Golden Age films to denounce the excesses of a nation characterized as a fragmented and fictitious construct. Analyzing big hits and quiet successes of both Golden Age and new-wave cinema, the author offers in each chapter a comparative reading of films from the two eras ... Read more

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  • Chicana Feminisms

    A Critical Reader

    by Stanley Fish ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chicana Feminisms presents new essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This volume moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, history, literature, and psychology, the distinguished contributors combine ... Read more

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  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 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

    $51.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

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  • Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film

    Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance

    by Andrea Easley Morris ...
    Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists’ participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government’s revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the ... Read more

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