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Author : Lourdes Grobet
Publisher : UNAM
ISBN 13 : 9789703237340
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Espectacular de lucha libre written by Lourdes Grobet and published by UNAM. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Lucha libre written by and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one part Mexi-Monster cinema, one part Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, throw in a little Zoro, the WWF and the knit-costume-wearing performance art collective Forcefield, and you come up with the raw, vivid, and psychologically unhinged world of "Lucha Libre" the sports-entertainment phenomenon that first swept Mexico and now the world. Photographer Lourdes Grobet's penentrating study of Mexican professional wrestling culture features more than 500 photographs of "luchadores" like Blue Demon, Santo, The Witch, Adorable Rub', El Solitario and Hurricane Ramirez, as well as pictures of their families, friends and fans--onstage, backstage and even at home. "Lucha Libre" also includes photographs of stickers, flyers, postcards, stills from "Mexi-lucha-cinema," interviews with the wrestlers, essays and much, much more! In this comprehensive 20-year study, Grobet has put together "the" definitive look at Mexico's masked superstars.
Author : Gustavo Subero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137564954
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema written by Gustavo Subero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema explores the different mechanisms and strategies through which horror films attempt to reinforce or contest gender relations and issues of sexual identity in the continent. The book explores issues of machismo, marianismo, homosociality, bromance, among others through the lens of horror narratives and, especially, it offers an analysis of monstrosity and the figure of the monster as an outlet to play out socio-sexual anxieties in different societies or gender groups. The author looks at a wide rage of films from countries such as Cuba, Peru, Mexico and Argentina and draws points of commonality, as well as comparing essential differences, between the way that horror fictions – considered by many as low-brow cinema - can be effective to delve into the way that sexuality and gender operates and circulates in the popular imaginary in these regions.
Author : Lourdes Grobet
Publisher : Editorial Rm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lucha Libre, the Family Portraits written by Lourdes Grobet and published by Editorial Rm. This book was released on 2009 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes Grobet has documented the spectacle of Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha libre (free fighting), for more than 25 years. The only woman to have worked in such proximity to the sport, Grobet has photographed the masked luchadores in many contexts--and always in their signature disguises, which practitioners have worn since 1942, when a wrestler named El Santo stepped into a Mexico City ring wearing a silver mask, literally changing the face of the game forever. The mask, always a symbolically rich object in Mexican culture, serves both as a retreat (into anonymity) and as an attack, as a weapon with which to disconcert and terrorize the opponent. Its visual appeal, especially when set in scenarios outside the ring, was quickly apparent to Grobet, who describes El Santo as "one of the teachers that most influenced me early on." In Lucha Libre: The Family Portraits, Grobet shows the wrestlers with their mothers, wives and girlfriends, sitting for what would almost be a generic family portrait, but for the fantastic costumes of the luchadores themselves. By this simple recontextualizing gesture, we are brought to the threshold of their identities--and held there. The ungainly, monstrous and splendidly defiant stance they convey with this final preservation of anonymity is of course what gives Grobet's pictures their edge. One of Mexico's leading contemporary photographers, Lourdes Grobet was a student of artists Mathias Goeritz, Gilberto Aceves Navarro and Katy Horna, among others. For the past 20 years, she has surveyed Mexican popular culture, from female wrestling, northern emigration and neo-Mayan architecture to Cuban immigration. Her influence on younger generations of Mexican artists, including Gabriel Orozco and Rubén Ortiz Torres, has been considerable.
Author : Michelle Clayton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948289
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Poetry in Pieces written by Michelle Clayton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejo’s writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo—and Latin American poetry—to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity.
Author : Heather Levi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391473
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The World of Lucha Libre written by Heather Levi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Lucha Libre is an insider’s account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, and reporters; she also apprenticed with a retired luchador (wrestler). Drawing on her insider’s perspective, she explores lucha libre as a cultural performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that circulate through Mexican culture and politics. Levi argues that the broad appeal of lucha libre lies in its capacity to stage contradictions at the heart of Mexican national identity: between the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, ritual and parody, machismo and feminism, politics and spectacle. Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport, modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles, and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights the history of the sport’s engagement with television: it was televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991. Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing political discourse. The World of Lucha Libre shows how a sport imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.
Author : Tim Hornbaker
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1613210752
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Legends of Pro Wrestling written by Tim Hornbaker and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the lives and careers of the best professional wrestling figures of the last one hundred fifty years, including Bruno Sammartino, The Undertaker, and John Cena.
Author : Bertrand Hébert
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773054767
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Eighth Wonder of the World written by Bertrand Hébert and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and exhaustive biography Is there a way to find truth in the stuff of legend? You may think you know André the Giant — but who was André Roussimoff? This comprehensive biography addresses the burning questions, outrageous stories, and common misconceptions about his height, his weight, his drawing power as a superstar, and his seemingly unparalleled capacity for food and alcohol. But more importantly, The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant transports readers beyond the smoke and mirrors of professional wrestling into the life of a real man. Born in France, André worked on his family’s farm until he was 18, when he moved to Paris to pursue professional wrestling. A truly extraordinary figure, André went on to become an international icon and world traveler, all while battling acromegaly. While his disorder is what made him a giant and a household name, it’s also what caused his untimely death at 46. With exhaustive research, exclusive interviews with family and friends, and an exploration of André’s amazing in-ring career and the indelible mark he left on pop culture, Laprade and Hébert have crafted the most complete portrait of a modern-day mythical being.
Author : Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Temple of Confessions written by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Beasts and Living Santos This beautiful and extraordinary book is the result of a collaboration between two of the US's most widely acclaimed multimedia/performance artists. Illustrated throughout with numerous line drawings and photographs, many in full colour, it is based around a performance piece of the same name but stands on its own as a fascinating insight into Mexican and Mexican-American culture. Includes CD and tattoo transfer.
Author : Judah Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629177533
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Luchadores written by Judah Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the quickest, most exciting and popular forms of professional wrestling is lucha libre from Mexico. Find out the history of the sport, what's in store for the future, what the rules of the game are, and more in this book.
Author : Dan Parent
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications
ISBN 13 : 1627389199
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Betty & Veronica: Prom Princesses written by Dan Parent and published by Archie Comic Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prettiest girls, the prettiest dresses, and plenty of fun at the prom--sparks fly as Betty & Veronica work to protect their friendship despite their rivalry over their mutual boyfriend Archie! This graphic novel collection contains all the ingredients of Archie's perennial bestselling comic stories. This fun full-color graphic novel anthology of favorite comic stories captures the magic of the high school prom and celebrates the powerful and constantly-tested friendship between Betty, everybody's favorite girl next door, and Veronica, Riverdale High's richest and classiest student.
Author : Grant Morrison
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kid Eternity (1991-) #2 written by Grant Morrison and published by Vertigo. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Sullivan and Kid Eternity embark on a journey through a mind-numbing hell of their own making as the Ripper plots more atrocities on Earth.
Author : Pamela Gillilan
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book That Winter written by Pamela Gillilan and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Author : Claude Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553102253
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Children of Ham written by Claude Brown and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The children of Ham are a group of young people ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two, who live in a condemned tenement in upper Harlem, a shell of a building owned by New York City. The children look out for themselves; they are a self-constituted family. They give to each other what they cannot get anywhere else: friendship and a sense of belonging. As you eavesdrop on their conversations, you learn about the families who abandoned -- or who abandoned them. Home for the children of Ham is this wreck of a house, the Harlem castle where they protect and sustain each other on hope as tenuous as life. It is their life that brims over in this book by Claude Brown. -- From publisher's description.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book NSS News written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon White
Publisher : WOHW Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781941356081
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Vader Time written by Leon White and published by WOHW Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon White grew up on the tough streets of Compton, before taking on the world. His impressive college football days led him to the NFL culminating at the Super Bowl. After reinventing himself, he debuted as a wrestler battling monsters like Bruiser Brody and Jerry Blackwell. Then, on a Japanese tour, he was given a new gimmick. As "Big Van Vader," he beat the undefeated Antonio Inokio for the IWGP title and had his eyeball literally pulled out of his skull by Stan Hansen, initiating his own legendary monster status. After winning titles around the world with every major promotion (wrestling names like Sting, Mick Foley, Ric Flair, and Hulk Hogan) this mastodon became "The Greatest Super Heavyweight of All Time," while also being a father. Read how his reign of terror continued even after getting an expiration date; a diagnosis of only "two years to live." This is the story of his life, and a legacy that will last forever. This is Vader Time.
Author : Esther Odilia Breuer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800410700
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Multilingual Literacy written by Esther Odilia Breuer and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates multilingual literacy practices, explores the technology applied in different educational frameworks, the centrality of multilingual literacy in non-formal, informal and formal educational contexts, as well as its presence in everyday life. Thematically clustered in four parts, the chapters present an overview of theory related to multilingual literacy, address the methodological challenges of research in the area, describe and evaluate projects set up to foster multilingual literacy in a variety of educational contexts, analyze the literacy practices of multilinguals and their contribution to language and literacy acquisition. This volume aims to initiate a change in paradigms, shifting from structured and conservative problematizations to inclusive and diverse conceptualizations and practices. To that end, the book showcases explorations of different methodologies and needs in formal and non-formal educational systems; and it serves as a springboard for developing multivocal participatory spaces with opportunities for learning and identity-building for all multilinguals, across different settings, languages, ages and contexts.
