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Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations
This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today. The six case studies examined (Drac Màgic, Women Make Movies, Groupe Intervention Vidéo, Leeds Animation Workshop, bildwechsel, Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir) have maintained a discrete yet continuing presence within an audiovisual industry and a cultural system dominated by institutionalized and corporate forms of production and distribution. Their longevity – quite a rarity in the independent circuit – makes a strong case for the sustainability of feminist/LGBTQ media activism in the public sphere, in spite of its low-key profile. This volume will be of interest to academicians of history and communication studies, feminist and LGBTQ topics, and gender-related cinematic culture.
Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959
This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific na...
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The Lawyer of the Church
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture. The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy’s response to the Reforma through a study of the life and works of Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía (1810–68), one of the most influential yet least-known figures of the period. By analyzing how Munguía responded to changing political and intellectual scenarios in defense of the clergy’s legal prerogatives and social role, Pablo Mijangos y González argues that the Catholic Church opposed ...
Down by the River
"Phil Jordan runs DEA intelligence, but when his brother Bruno is killed, he is powerless. Amado Carillo Fuentes runs the most successful drug business in the history of the world, but when his usefulness to governments ceases, he mysteriously dies in a hospital. Carlos Salinas runs Mexico, but as soon as he leaves office, his brother is jailed for murder and Salinas flees into exile. Sal Martinez, DEA agent and Bruno's cousin, does the secret work of the U. S. government in Mexico, but when he seeks revenge for his cousin's murder, he is sentenced to a term in federal prison." "Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and money." "Down by the River is the tale of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. Of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U. S. government. Of how major financial institutions fattened on the drug industry. And how the governments of the United States and Mexico buried everything that happened."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Our Lady of Guadalupe
"A revised and expanded edition of this seminal history of the origins of the Guadalupe apparitions"--Provided by publisher.
Reconciliation and Resistance in Early Modern Spain
Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction: An Alternative Eye on the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs -- 2. Cordoba, the Frontier, and the Inquisition, 1450-1487 -- 3. Granada, 1488-1492 -- 4. Learning and Culture among the Andalusian Élite - 1492-1510 -- 5. The Spanish in Italy -- 6. Reconciliation and Resistance: A Society in Transition -- 7. A Dissident Representation of the Conquest of Granada -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Hernando de Baeza's Memoir -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico
This is the first and only comprehensive work to deal with a relatively unknown facet of Mexican social and religious history, the debates over the historicity of the Guadalupe apparitions and the historical existence of Juan Diego.
Censura infantojuvenil en la literatura y educación europea
La Literatura Infantil y Juvenil ha sido objeto de atención preferente para la mayoría de los Estados dictatoriales. Con su control se trató de moldear la cultura de los más jóvenes para impulsar un sentimiento de identidad nacional homogéneo, afín a la ideología de sus gobiernos. Esta monografía revela los diferentes tipos de censura, las estrategias de veto y la propaganda ejercida por medio de suplementos periodísticos y lecturas hagiográficas. Del mismo modo, también se muestra la resiliencia de autores y editoriales disidentes que apostaron por romper la imposición del canon institucional y defendieron la libertad de las letras, para abrir camino a la pluralidad temática.C...
