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New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema
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ISBN: 9789089643049 9789089643032 9789048514038 9048514037 9089643044 9089643036 9786613259288 1283259281 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam

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After General Francisco Franco died in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Many film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under Franco's dictatorship, introducing characters who transgressed the traditional borders of social, cultural, and sexual identities. The women, homosexuals, transsexuals, and delinquents who were considered lost, dissonant bodies under Franco's rule became the new protagonists of Spanish cinema. "Here is a 'book of passion' on the metamorphoses of post-Francoist Spain as it catapulted into the contemporary world (1975-95). It is a book that questions the power of myths expressed through passionate bodies, in particular bodies who for too long were marginalized in traditional societies." -Michèle Lagny, Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III


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Pratiques de l'intime
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ISBN: 9782800415185 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bruxelles Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles

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Dans un contexte socio-culturel propice à l’expression de l’ego, aux épanchements personnels et à l’exhibition de l’intériorité, des créatrices explorent le filon intimiste, souvent avec une audace et une crudité que leur envient leurs alter ego masculins. Que ce soit dans la littérature, les arts plastiques ou le cinéma contemporain, les artistes sont en effet de plus en plus nombreuses à décrire l’expérience (fictionnelle ou subjective) de l’intime, puisant volontiers dans les détails de leurs vies (sexuelles) respectives. Au cœur de ces nouvelles formes, l’hybridation des discours – critique, théorique et intime – est de mise, provoquant un réaménagement considérable au sein des genres, et du genre. br>Ce volume s’interroge à la fois sur les pratiques sexuelles que couvre cette idée de l’intime, l’évolution du contenu des œuvres, du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, ainsi que sur les différentes modalités discursives qui véhiculent ces visions (des journaux écrits et correspondances, réels ou fictifs, des œuvres d’art, des films documentaires ou de fiction). L’enjeu des textes repris dans ce volume se situe aussi au niveau de la pertinence d’un tel phénomène et de la spécificité d’un discours « féminin » par rapport à ces pratiques créatives.


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Documenting racism : African Americans in U.S. Department of Agriculture documentaries, 1921-42
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ISBN: 9780826405555 082640555X 1623561396 132214575X 1441172939 1628928670 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Continuum,

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From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels, churches, libraries and even in open fields. For many Americans in the early 1900s, the USDA films were the first motion pictures they watched. And yet USDA documentaries have received little serious scholarly attention. The lack of serious study is especially concerning since the films chronicle over half a century of American farm life and agricultur


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Subjectivity : filmic representation and the spectator's experience
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ISBN: 9789089643179 9789048514205 9089643176 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.


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Disability studies and Spanish culture
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ISBN: 1781386412 1781389268 1846317967 184631870X 9781846317965 9781781386415 9781846318702 Year: 2013 Publisher: Liverpool Liverpool University Press

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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself-making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered.


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Filming the end of the Holocaust : allied documentaries, Nuremberg and the liberation of the concentration camps
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ISBN: 9781474282789 9781472514288 1472514289 1474282784 1322154864 1472510372 1474210651 1472510860 9781472510372 Year: 2014 Publisher: London ; New Delhi ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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