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