The Cambridge History of Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Latin America write by Leslie Bethell. This book was released on 1984. The Cambridge History of Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume discusses trends in twentieth-century Latin American literature, philosophy, art, music, and popular culture.
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Classical Mexican Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classical Mexican Cinema write by Charles Ramírez Berg. This book was released on 2015-09-01. The Classical Mexican Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood’s paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho sought to create a unique national cinema that, through the stories it told and the ways it told them, was wholly Mexican. The Classical Mexican Cinema traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express lo mexicano. Charles Ramírez Berg begins by locating the classical style’s pre-cinematic roots in the work of popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada at the turn of the twentieth century. He also looks at the dawning of Mexican classicism in the poetics of Enrique Rosas’ El Automóvil Gris, the crowning achievement of Mexico’s silent filmmaking era and the film that set the stage for the Golden Age films. Berg then analyzes mature examples of classical Mexican filmmaking by the predominant Golden Age auteurs of three successive decades. Drawing on neoformalism and neoauteurism within a cultural studies framework, he brilliantly reveals how the poetics of Classical Mexican Cinema deviated from the formal norms of the Golden Age to express a uniquely Mexican sensibility thematically, stylistically, and ideologically.
Land of Necessity
Land of Necessity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land of Necessity write by Alexis McCrossen. This book was released on 2009-06-19. Land of Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico and the United States. This richly illustrated volume, with more than 100 images including maps, photographs, and advertisements, explores the convergence of broad demographic, economic, political, cultural, and transnational developments resulting in various forms of consumer culture in the borderlands. Though its importance is uncontestable, the role of necessity in consumer culture has rarely been explored. Indeed, it has been argued that where necessity reigns, consumer culture is anemic. This volume demonstrates otherwise. In doing so, it sheds new light on the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, while also opening up similar terrain for scholarly inquiry into consumer culture. The volume opens with two chapters that detail the historical trajectories of consumer culture and the borderlands. In the subsequent chapters, contributors take up subjects including smuggling, tourist districts and resorts, purchasing power, and living standards. Others address home décor, housing, urban development, and commercial real estate, while still others consider the circulation of cinematic images, contraband, used cars, and clothing. Several contributors discuss the movement of people across borders, within cities, and in retail spaces. In the two afterwords, scholars reflect on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a particular site of trade in labor, land, leisure, and commodities, while also musing about consumer culture as a place of complex political and economic negotiations. Through its focus on the borderlands, this volume provides valuable insight into the historical and contemporary aspects of the big “isms” shaping modern life: capitalism, nationalism, transnationalism, globalism, and, without a doubt, consumerism. Contributors. Josef Barton, Peter S. Cahn, Howard Campbell, Lawrence Culver, Amy S. Greenberg, Josiah McC. Heyman, Sarah Hill, Alexis McCrossen, Robert Perez, Laura Isabel Serna, Rachel St. John, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Evan R. Ward
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz write by Steven B. Bunker. This book was released on 2012. Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz. Through case studies of tobacco marketing, department stores, advertising, shoplifting, and a famous jewelry robbery and homicide, he provides a tour of daily life in Porfirian Mexico City, overturning conventional wisdom that only the middle and upper classes participated in this culture"--Provided by publisher.
Cartelera del cine en México, 1906.
Cartelera del cine en México, 1906. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cartelera del cine en México, 1906. write by Juan Felipe Leal. This book was released on 2008-05-01. Cartelera del cine en México, 1906. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. En la “Presentación” de este volumen de la colección Cartelera del cine en México, 1903-1911, Juan Felipe Leal nos ofrece un panorama sorprendente de los orígenes del cine alemán, todavía insuficientemente documentados, cuyas producciones comenzaron a brillar con luz propia en las pantallas mexicanas a partir de 1906. En ella desfilan inventores de aparatos y equipos como los hermanos Skladanowsky y Oskar Messter; pioneros del uso de máquinas traga-monedas como Ludwig Stollwerck y Curt Harzer; fabricantes de película virgen como la AGFA y la Bauer; cadenas de cines como la Allgemeine Kinematographen-Theater Gesellschaft (AKTG) y la Weltkinematograph Freiburg (WKF); casas productoras de películas como la Deutsche Mutoskop & Biograph, la Duskes Kinematographen und Film Fabrik, la Projektions-Aktie Gesellschaft “Union” (PAGU), la Vitascope Theater-Betriebsgesellschaft, la Deutche Bioskop, la Continental-Kunstfilm y, sobre todo, la Universum-Film Aktie Gesellschaft (UFA); cortos, medio y largometrajes; documentales y cintas de argumento; Tonbilder y phonoscènes (películas sonorizadas); Sensationsfilme (películas de acción rápida, fuertes dosis de erotismo y violencia explícita) y Autorenfilme (filmes de calidad); estrellas rutilantes como la sumisa Henny Porten y la sensual Asta Nielsen; obras cinematográficas famosas como Andreas Hofer (1909), El amor de una joven ciega (1910), La edad peligrosa (1911), El momento femenino de un hombre (1912), El estudiante de Praga (1913) y La banda de Zapata (1914); noticieros cinematográficos como Der Tag im Film (1911) y Die Messters-Wochenschau (1914). El corpus de Cartelera del cine en México, 1906. Segunda parte (abril-junio) está compuesto por 302 cédulas, correspondientes a igual número de películas que se exhibieron en la república mexicana en dicho trimestre. Cada cédula contiene la siguiente información de las cintas: título original, título de exhibición, lugar de filmación, productor, director, intérpretes, camarógrafo, sala cinematográfica o local de exhibición (con su ubicación y fecha de proyección), empresario de cine que las proyectó, propietario de la sala, notas, imágenes, comentarios y fuentes. Por último, el libro incluye diversos índices analíticos y cuenta con el apoyo de casi 300 imágenes que en sí mismas son dignas de celebración y estudio. Catherine A. Bloch
