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Des spécialistes français et étrangers (Espagne, Pays-Bas, Mexique, Argentine, Colombie...) étudient les relations qu'entretiennent l'image et la divinité. Ils s'appuient ainsi sur des figures de la culture hispanique : des peintres (Le Gréco, Vélasquez, Goya, Picasso, Antonio Saura), des figures du cinéma (Pedro Almodovar, Carlos Saura, Luis Bunuel) mais également de la mythologie et de la Bible.
L’histoire du cinéma n’existerait pas sans les collectionneurs. Que ce soit par leur travail de collecte pionnier ou par leur défense passionnée de pans oubliés de la production cinématographique mondiale, leur influence durable se fait sentir tant sur le terrain que par leurs méthodes pour appréhender l’histoire des images animées. Leur contribution est toutefois restée dans l’ombre des travaux menés dans les institutions universitaires et archivistiques jusqu’à ce qu’un intérêt nouveau pour les questions relatives aux archives, à l’archéologie des médias et à l’histoire des techniques jette la lumière sur l’importance de leurs activités. Cet ouvrage, qu...
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Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse. This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, recognized for their command of and insights into Foucault's oeuvre. They demonstrate the many respects in which Foucault's project of an ontology of the present remains vital and continues to yield compelling insights and show that an ontology of the present is restricted to no particular terrain, but ins...
Repeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world. Widely understood to embody the bridge between European subject and African other, the mulata contains the sensuality attributed to Africans in a body more closely resembling the European ideal of beauty. This symbol bears far-reaching implications, with shifting, contradictory cultural meanings in Cuba. Fraunhar explo...
This bibliography of contributions in French to Mesoamerican studies aims to: assess the existing situation; provide the most complete list of references and draw attention to unknown contributions; evaluate the contribution of the most recent formations; insist upon the necessary confrontation of methods and points of view.
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