Bridging Continents
Subtitle: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes
Publisher: Chasqui
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tempe, AZ
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
Description: Collection of essays on Spanish and Latin American film and literature
Table of contents: title: 5
label: Introduction; title: Reassesing the Heritage: Colonial and Postcolonial Connections Between Latin America and Spain; title: 11
label: Turning Cannibalism Inside Out: Re-reading the Chronicles in "Como era gostoso o meu frances"; title: 24
label: Aguirre Goes to the Movies: Twentieth-Century Visions of Colonial-Era "Relaciones"; title: 36
label: "Cuarteto de la Habana:" Filming the Foundational Romance in the Era of Global Sex Trade; title: 48
label: Screening African Immigration to Spain: "Las cartas de Alou" and "Bwana"; title: Spanish Nationalism(s): Border Crossing and Shifting Identities; title: 63
label: Kitsch and Film in the Construction of the Francoist Nation; title: 71
label: Film Adaptations of Works by Exiled Novelists; title: 78
label: Textual Sreens and City Landscapes: Barcelona and the Touristic Gaze; title: 95
label: Basque Postnationalism, Identity Politics, and the Reconfiguration of Transgresion; title: Breaking Ground: Twisted Youth and Gender Twists in the Spanish-Speaking World; title: 111
label: "Pijos," Profs, and Other Perverts: Snuff and Other Genre Trouble in "Tesis"; title: 122
label: Nihilism ans Simulacrum: The Two "Historias del Kronen"; title: 132
label: "Vestidas, locas, mayates and machos:" History and Homosexuality in Mexican Cinema; title: 145
label: "Plata quemada:" Social Violence and Gay Idyll; title: The Female Gaze the Male Perspective: Spanish American Literature and Film; title: 153
label: Literary Long Shots and Close-up in the Works of Mariano Azuela and Francisco Ayala; title: 166
label: Borges's Women and Film; title: 176
label: Cinematic and Literary Interpretations in Juan Carlos Onetti's "El infierno tan temido"; title: 184
label: "La pierna quebrada:" The Female Body and the Pre-Cinematic Gaze in "Tristana" and "Camila"