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Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema highlights the bold, inspiring, and diverse work of female filmmakers—including directors, screenwriters, and producers—and female protagonists in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry. This volume examines the diverse production and distribution spaces these filmmakers are working in, including documentary, experimental, and short filmmaking, as well as commercial feature films. An intersectional approach runs throughout the chapters with complex considerations around gender, race, sexuality, and class. The book features a mix of research methods and genres, with macro-level political, economic, and industry-wide views of gender disparities appearing alongside in-depth conversations with contemporary filmmakers Maria Augusta Ramos, Petra Costa, Mari Corrêa, and Paula Sacchetta, focused on micro-level personal experiences. In bringing together original essays and interviews, the volume provides valuable information for students of Brazil in general and of Brazilian film in particular.
Prize Possession
Prize Possession is a history of United States policy towards the Panama Canal, focusing principally on the first two generations of American tenure of the Canal Zone between 1904 and 1955. John Major also provides an extensive look at the nineteenth-century background, the making of the 1903 canal treaty with Panama, the move after 1955 towards the new treaty settlement of 1977, and the crucial significance of the Canal to American policy-makers and their public. The book is based for the most part on the hitherto largely untapped sources of US government agencies, namely, the State, War, and Navy Department, and the Canal Zone administration, as well as on the papers of notable dramatis personae such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Philippe Bunau-Varilla. As such it makes an important and original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a subject which has not yet received its due from historians.
Somente a verdade
Quando tinha apenas cinco anos, Mario Lucachesi viu o pai embarcar em mais uma de suas viagens misteriosas, mas desta vez não mais para trazer os tão ansiados chocolates belgas – para nunca mais voltar. A foto da lápide e as lágrimas da mãe atestavam a morte do patriarca, mas Mario nunca se convenceu. O menino cresce e se torna estudante de história, guia turístico premium, filho modelo e um legítimo membro do Clube dos Mentirosos; e como tal, mestre na arte de vender ilusões, criando histórias tão sofisticadamente ilusórias que soam mais verossímeis que a pobre realidade, tão nua e crua. Mentir é diferente de inventar uma verdade – diz um personagem – o rei sempre está...
Todo abismo é navegável a barquinhos de papel
Entre o refluxo lírico, os sanatórios de ternura e as cascas de parede, Davi Koteck extrai poesia dos gestos e das cenas mais simples, desfiando imagens e sentimentos inesperados como numa conversa íntima, e cria novos sentidos com a facilidade de quem sabe revirar o verso pelo avesso até extrair âmago do poema. "Davi escreve, com notável singularidade, sobre os intervalos, imperceptíveis em variados graus, dispersos entre o transitar do tempo e dos afetos, também sobre olhares e buscas que não se completam. [...] Um livro a ser desbravado pelos que sabem das perturbações que há em cada pequeno momento de afeto." [Paulo Scott]
Kenya Gazette
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Black Labor on a White Canal
Must reading for those social scientists who would understand the role of West Indians in Panamerican politics and society. Michael Coniff is to be commended for an excellent study.
Vivid Memories of an Interesting Life
This volume presents a dramatic collection of significant combat experiences of seventy-nine men in World War II, as told from one combat veteran to another. In the eighty-six chapters are stories involving all the various branches of combat service and all of the various theaters of war. Within reminiscences, veterans of dangerous encounters are much more apt to open up with details in discussions with men who have also experienced combat. Many find it emotionally distressing to talk of the war with the general public or to recall the horrors of warfare. This is not a history book nor any attempt to tell the big picture of grand campaigns. Instead, it is a collection of personal involvement...
