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After the Civil War
The Spanish civil war was fought out not only on streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also in terms of memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book explores how the memory of Spain's bloody civil war has been contested from 1939 to the present.
The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán
The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán: From Communism to the New Social Movements offers a substantial selection of some the most significant writings on Marx, Marxism, and radical social theory by Manuel Sacristán, Spain’s most important Marxist philosopher. Whether discussing Marx’s intellectual development and philosophical views, exploring central issues in Marxist theory or analysing the challenge to contemporary Marxism from feminism, pacifism and environmentalism, Sacristán emerges in these pages as both a major Marx scholar and a formidable social theorist in his own right. The Marxism of Manuel Sacristán makes available in English for the first time many of the key texts by a brilliant, yet neglected, Marxist thinker.
Cultural Heritage and Slavery
In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when statues of enslavers and colonizers were toppled, controversial debates about streets and places named after them re-ignited, and the European Union apologized for slavery after the racist murder of George Floyd. Related debates focus on museums, on artworks acquired unjustly i...
Catalan Cinema
Catalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years. The essays in this collection examine cinema in relation to the Escola de Barcelona (The Barcelona School), a group of cinema directors that drew inspiration from British pop-art, Free Cinema, and the Nouvelle Vague to create works that defied and challenged the Franco dictatorship. Highlighting the aesthetic, social, and political elements of Catalan cinematography, contributors to this volume explore what young directors have in common with works created by more notable directors such as Joaquim Jordà, Jacinto Esteva, Jordi Grau, and Pere Portabella. Catalan Cinema focuses on the importance of modern production and its connection with the avant-garde and underground cinema from the Barcelona School. Establishing a cinematic genealogy, the volume ultimately questions if Catalan cinema’s own push for self-expression may be interpreted as a connection to Catalonia’s current drive for independence.
El missatger del fred
Hernan Gurguí i Mas (Barcelona, 1906) viatjà entre els anys 1930 i 1935 a Guinea, Abissínia, Egipte, Sudan, Iemen, Djibouti, Indoxina francesa, Filipines i la Xina. Fill d’una coneguda família del barri de Gràcia —els seus pares tenien diverses parades de peix i de carn en els dos mercats de la Vila—, l’Hernan era sovint en boca de tothom pels seus dots de seductor i per la seva vida arriscada, aventurera i eixelebrada; faldiller i jugador, es casà el 1929 amb la Josefina Hüppy, néta d’un suís que havia vingut a Barcelona per a participar en la fosa del monument a Colom. La parella, però, esdevingué un desastre. El missatger del fred es capbussa en la vida dels seus avan...
Directores de cine en Cataluña
El lector podrá encontrar en la presente obra 375 entradas por orden alfabético de personas que han dirigido películas en Cataluña, ciudadanos que viven y trabajan de forma estable en el Principado, hayan nacido o no en él, independientemente de la lengua que utilizen. No están todos los que son, pero sí son todos los que están, de la A a la Z: desde Baltasar Abadal hasta Claudio Zulian. O sea, desde Fructuós Gelabert, uno de los fundadores de la industria cinematográfica catalana, hasta el debutante Oriol Porta. O lo que es lo mismo, desde Salida de los trabajadores de la fábrica “La España Industrial” (1897) hasta Hollywood contra Franco (2008)..Este diccionario demuestra que el cine catalán es cuantitativamente más importante de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista, pero éste está olvidado en la mayoría de historias del cine español. Por esta razón, si esta obra está escrita en castellano es con la intención de difundir al público de este idioma la cinematografía catalana.
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