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Mex-Ciné
A multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema
Malinche
An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.
Silvestre Revueltas
"To this day, both at home and beyond Mexico's borders, Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been systematically portrayed as a nationalist composer. Unknown or ignored, his private and public writings destroy this myth straight out. The then-fashionable musicking of a presumed Mexicanness was far from Revueltas' mind. Strongly inspired by the Soviet Revolution, his dream was to find ways to sound the voice of the social people, not only those wandering the Mexican streets but also the gypsy miners in Spain, the black slaves in the U.S. South, and those in Cuba in colonial times. The various soundings of such social actors account for the diversity of aesthetics in his works, explored in this...
Good Neighbor Empires
A class of child artists in Mexico, a ship full of child refugees from Spain, classrooms of child pageant actors, and a pair of boy ambassadors revealed facets of hemispheric politics in the Good Neighbor era. Culture-makers in the Americas tuned into to children as producers of cultural capital to advance their transnational projects. In many instances, prevailing conceptions of children as innocent, primitive, dependent, and underdeveloped informed perceptions of Latin America as an infantilized region, a lesser "Other Americas" on the continent. In other cases, children's interventions in the cultural politics, economic projects, and diplomatic endeavors of the interwar period revealed that Latin American children saw themselves as modern, professional, participants in forging inter-American relationships.
The 1998 Latino Film Festival Yearbook
Like a film festival on paper, this is the first book of its kind in English to showcase the best of in Latino filmmaking. A dazzling celebration in words and photos, it includes a tribute to the late, great Raul Julia and Gabriel Figueroa, a profile of the amazing Rita Moreno, and articles by the noteworthy Luis Valdez, Carlos Monsivais and Bel Hernandez. A much-needed resource in the rapidly evolving world of Latin-American movies and U.S. Latino films, shorts and documentaries, The 1998 Latino Film Festival Yearbook profiles 60 pivotal movies, documentaries and short films, including: -- Tango (USA) -- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (USA) -- The Voice of the Heart (Venezuela) -- Saint Lucifer (Mexico) -- Obstinate Memory (Chile) -- Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (Spain). With an introduction by Edward James Olmos, this book is a must for anyone interested in film or Hispanic studies. It is a fascinating look at the "other half" of Hollywood.
41st London Film Festival
A souvenir programme from the 41st London film Festival, providing a guide for cinema-goers. The programme contains full details of every film screened during the festival, together with full credits, sales and distribution details, filmographies and bibliographical notes.
Water Resources of Mexico
This comprehensive volume presents the topic of water resources of Mexico from a different angle. Besides covering the geohydrology it also offers a brief account of the ancient water resources works, explains from where the water is coming, how the water is being used in homes and in the industry, how the dams are operated in the hurricane season, some aspects of the water-energy-food securities nexus and the expectations for the future in connection with global climate change. The book is of interest to every one connected with the water resources of Mexico, e.g. federal and state employees of agencies related with water management, water supply and wastewater treatment. It is also of value to those in academia and employed at water related professional associations and the general public.
Exils, passages et transitions
Contributions pluridisciplinaires sur des sujets de recherche de Rose Duroux comme l'exil, les migrations, la construction d'une identité entre plusieurs pays et cultures, etc. Réunit des études sur l'histoire moderne et contemporaine française et espagnole, le théâtre et la poésie espagnoles, le cinéma, la société espagnole, etc.
