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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lorena cervera ferrer”
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  • A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary

    by Lorena Cervera Ferrer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women’s documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s.With a focus on documentaries with clear political intents, this book illustrates some of the thematic interests, authorial modes, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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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

    $30.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina

    Beyond Memory Fatigue

    by Veronica Garibotto ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    For roughly two decades after the collapse of the military regime in 1983, testimonial narrative was viewed and received as a privileged genre in Argentina. Today, however, academics and public intellectuals are experiencing "memory fatigue," a backlash against the concepts of memory and trauma, just as memory and testimonial films have reached the center of Argentinian public discourse. In ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Cinemachismo

    Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film

    by Sergio de la Mora ...
    After the modern Mexican state came into being following the Revolution of 1910, hyper-masculine machismo came to be a defining characteristic of "mexicanidad," or Mexican national identity. Virile men (pelados and charros), virtuous prostitutes as mother figures, and minstrel-like gay men were held out as desired and/or abject models not only in governmental rhetoric and propaganda, but also in ... Read more

    $24.99 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

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Films of Elias Querejeta

    A Producer of Landscapes

    by Tom Whittaker ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The Films of Elias Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes is the first book in English to explore the career of Spain's most important producer. Through their recurring emphasis on landscape, his films have consistently documented a country in the grip of modernization from the 1960s to the present day. In particular, this book investigates the ways in which landscape in his productions can be ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

    Nature, Gender, and Agency

    by Rachel Randall ...
    Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child characters have taken on a critical representational role within Latin American cinema because of their position on the threshold between “nature” and “culture,” which converts them into a focus of, and a ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Tuning Out Blackness

    Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television

    by Yeidy M. Rivero, Lynn Spigel ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She shows ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity

    by Nadia Lie ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mamá también are only the best-known examples. It offers the first systematic survey of the genre and explains why the road movie is key to contemporary Latin American cinema and society. Proposing the new category of “counter ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • 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

    $57.99 CAD