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Mex-Ciné
A multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema
Silvestre Revueltas
Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion shows how Revueltas, strongly inspired by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, sought ways to sound the voice of the commoners wandering the Mexican streets, as well as that of gypsy miners in Spain, Black women in the U.S. South, and slaves in Cuba in colonial times.
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.
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 th...
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.
