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"In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests simultaneously in a polarized Cold War climate. Seeking to sharpen viewers' critical faculties as a safeguard against ideological extremes in cinema, institutions of film culture lent prestige to Latin America's growing middle classes and capitalized on official and unofficial efforts to boost the circulation of French cinema, enhancing the nation's soft power in the wake of military defeat and occupation. As the first book-length, transnational analysis of postwar Latin American film culture, Transatlantic Cinephilia deepens our understanding of how institutional networks have nurtured alternative and nontheatrical cinemas"--
Mario Schjetan is one of the world's most versatile and accomplished contemporary landscape architects -- a cosmopolitan designer who is also empathetically Mexican. His work has been influenced by Mexican art, by twentieth-century awareness, and by his friendships with modernist designers, including Luis Barragan, Max Cetto, and Mario Pani. He has worked on historic and modern sites, and has successfully adapted his work to the increasingly global demands on landscape design.
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--José Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics. Recuerdos Literarios (or Literary Memoirs) is his masterpiece, encompassing the candid memories of a tireless activist, both the creative and critical sensibilities of an influential Latin American early modernist, and an eyewitness account of the development of Chilean literature and historiography. An ardent, eloquent participant in every defining artistic and ideolo...
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This book describes the rapid growth of Santiago—Chile's capital and its largest and most important city—for the period 1891-1931. Based on a wide range of original research, the book describes the growth of the city, both demographically and spatially, and highlights the role of the local administration in this process.
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This publication evaluates the key economic, social and political developments in the Latin American and Caribbean region during the 1990s, a period of transition and reorientation,. It was marked by instances of progress, stagnation and reverses, with the speed of progress variable between countries and sectors. Chapters discuss: the global and regional context, macroeconomic performance, structure and performance of good-producing sectors, infrastructure service sectors, social sectors, sustainable development, economic and social performance, and the restructuring of national territories.