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Indiscreet Fantasies

Author : Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482488
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Indiscreet Fantasies written by Andrés Lema-Hincapié and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family values, while intervening in vital debates about politics, history, and nation. Indiscreet Fantasies is a unique collection that offers in-depth analyses of fifteen different films produced in the region over the past fifty years, each by a different director, from Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s La residencia (The House That Screamed, 1969) to João Pedro Rodrigues’s O ornitólogo (The Ornithologist, 2016). Contributors examine how queer Iberian cinema has responded to historical trauma—from the AIDS crisis to the repressive and homophobic Franco regime—and explore how these films demonstrate a fluid understanding of sexuality, gender, and national identity. The result will give readers a new appreciation for the cultural diversity of Iberia and the richness of its thought-provoking queer cinema. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Supranational Horrors

Author : Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793654352
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Supranational Horrors written by Rui M. Trindade Oliveira and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the parallels between Italian and Spanish horror cinemas including the cultural features they share, their ability to define distinct identities within the genre, and what the author terms ‘Italian-Spanishness.’

Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Author : Julio Baena
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684483700
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World written by Julio Baena and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World examines portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates.

Touring The Sierra Nevada

Author : Cheryl Angelina Koehler
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874177170
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Touring The Sierra Nevada written by Cheryl Angelina Koehler and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to the entire Sierra NevadaThe Sierra Nevada is one of the most scenic, biologically diverse, and historically rich mountain ranges in North America. Touring the Sierra Nevada covers the entire range and its adjacent regions, exploring the Sierra Nevada from such world-famous sites as Lake Tahoe and Yosemite to picturesque mining towns, scenic alpine lakes, lush vineyards, and colorful hidden byways. Koehler offers suggestions for long tours and exciting daytrips, as well as detailed information about the history, geology, flora and fauna, economy, and unique features of places along the way. The book is illustrated with photographs and maps of the regions she describes. Koehler includes excursions for automobile travelers as well as backcountry adventures for hikers. She provides information about attractions in the Sierra’s two “jumping-off” cities, Sacramento and Reno, as well as in some of the major towns within the range. There is practical advice about contacting parks, museums, historical sites, visitors’ bureaus, U.S. Forest Service offices, and other agencies; finding lodging, campgrounds, and restaurants along the way; preparing for weather and altitude changes; and identifying further sources of information about the region in published guides and other books, as well as on websites. Koehler offers her readers the literary companionship of an experienced, charming, and vivacious guide through one of America’s most fascinating regions.

Between Market and Myth

Author : Katie J. Vater
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684482216
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Between Market and Myth written by Katie J. Vater and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco's death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence.

Saberes con sabor

Author : Conxita Domènech
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429782462
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Saberes con sabor written by Conxita Domènech and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saberes con sabor: Culturas hispánicas a través de la cocina es un manual avanzado que responde al creciente interés por el estudio de las prácticas culinarias y alimenticias de Ibero-América, sin desatender ni la lengua ni la cultura de esas regiones del mundo. Cada capítulo comprende aspectos vinculados con recetas, lengua, arte y teoría. Los estudiantes son expuestos a temas de geografía, historia, literatura, política, economía, religión, música e, incluso, cuestiones de género que estarían implicadas en la elaboración y en el consumo de ciertas comidas. Y, esto, mientras mejoran sus habilidades en temas esenciales y específicos del español. A lo largo del libro, están incorporados materiales de internet —como vínculos para videos, registros sonoros, referencias históricas, sitios web de cocina y contenidos suplementarios para la investigación. Muy útil en cursos universitarios, Saberes con sabor es un recurso original y único de aprendizaje para estudiantes fascinados por los placeres del paladar y, de igual manera, con una genuina pasión por las culturas hispánicas.

The Island of Temptations

Author : Mara Brewer
Publisher : DistribBooks
ISBN 13 : 5906492070
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Temptations written by Mara Brewer and published by DistribBooks. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Fernandes, a policeman from Denver, sick and tired of the routine work at the police station, participates in the casting for a new TV show and as a member of the selected group heads for the island to be tested. Before leaving he receives the task from his chief – to watch over one of the show participants who is the daughter of a recently murdered FBI agent. While preparing for shooting Andy studies his competitors and comes to the conclusion that the people chosen are not the best candidates but, rather, a handful of losers. Later on he finds out that they have been selected to search for the treasures hidden according to the medieval legend of pirates. The island meets the show participants with the dangerous adventures, love and intrigues, mystic events and the awareness of the need of self-improvement. Why exactly these people have been chosen, what trials the characters of this story will have to live through and what every participant of the show will find for himself, read in the book «The Island Of Temptations: The Unreal Show» published by DistribBooks!

Space, Drama, and Empire

Author : Javier Lorenzo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684484936
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Space, Drama, and Empire written by Javier Lorenzo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562–1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain’s classical theater. In this rich and informative study, Javier Lorenzo investigates the symbolic use of space in Lope’s drama and its function as an ideological tool to promote an imagined Spanish national past. In specific plays, this book argues, historical landscapes and settings were used to foretell and legitimize the imperial present in Hapsburg Spain, allowing audiences to visualize and plot, as on a map, the country’s expansionist trajectory throughout the centuries. By focusing on connections among space, drama, and empire, this book makes an important contribution to the study of literature and imperialism in early modern Spain and equally to our understanding of the role and political significance of spatiality in Siglo de Oro comedia.

Founders of the Future

Author : Óscar Iván Useche
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684483859
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Founders of the Future written by Óscar Iván Useche and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Here, Useche offers fresh readings of canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors.

Dystopias of Infamy

Author : Javier Irigoyen-García
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684484006
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis Dystopias of Infamy by : Javier Irigoyen-García

Download or read book Dystopias of Infamy written by Javier Irigoyen-García and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insults, scorn, and verbal abuse—frequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulter—are destined to fail when that language is appropriated and embraced by the maligned group. In such circumstances, slander may instead empower and reinforce the collective identity of those perceived to be a threat to an idealized society. In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the cultural imagination, anxieties, and fantasies of early modern Spain. Drawing on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary works, archival research, religious and political literature, and iconographic documents, Dystopias of Infamy traces how the production of insults haunts the imaginary of power, provoking latent anxieties about individual and collective resistance to subjectification. Of particular note is Cervantes’s tendency to parody regulatory fantasies about infamy throughout his work, lampooning repressive law for its paradoxical potential to instigate the very defiance it fears.

Making Modern Spain

Author : Azariah Alfante
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684484979
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Making Modern Spain written by Azariah Alfante and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Böhl de Faber (Fernán Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, and José María de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain’s liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.

Calila

Author : Joan L. Brown
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684483077
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Calila written by Joan L. Brown and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite explores the last six novels by Spain ́s most honored contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself—as Brown called Martín Gaite, who was a dear friend—as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels. The book opens with an introduction to Martín Gaite ́s life and literature and ends with a consideration of her legacy. Each central chapter analyzes a later novel in its historical, biographical, and critical contexts. From the young adult fantasy Caperucita en Manhattan (Red Riding Hood in Manhattan) to the post-Transition epistolary masterpiece Nubosidad variable (Variable Cloud), the Transition-era saga La Reina de las Nieves (The Farewell Angel), the Proustian reminiscence Lo raro es vivir (Living’s the Strange Thing), the narrative tapestry Irse de casa (Leaving Home), and the memoir of family secrets Los parentescos (Family Relations), these fascinating novels evoke themes that resonate today.

The Reality Effect

Author : Joel Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135354324
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Reality Effect written by Joel Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It used to be only movies were on film; now the whole world is. The most intimate and most banal moments of our lives are constantly recorded for public consumption. In The Reality Effect, Joel Black argues that the desire to make visible every aspect of our lives is an impulse derived from cinema- one that has made life both more graphic and less "real." He approaches film as a documentary medium that has obscured-if not obliterated- the line between reality and fiction. To illustrate this effect, Black traces the uncanny interplay between movies and real-life events through a series of comparative analyses-from Lolita and the murder of JonBenét Ramsey to Wag the Dog and the Clinton scandal to Crash and Princess Diana's violent death.

Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain

Author : Jennifer Brady
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527523489
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain written by Jennifer Brady and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays analyzes shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, the anthology establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain, and serves as a useful reference for scholars and students of Spanish literature and cinema. The primary avenues of exploration include representations of recovery in post-crisis Spain, marginalized texts and identities, silenced subjectivities, intersecting relationships, and spaces of desire and control. The individual chapters focus on major events, such as the global economic crisis, the tension between majority and minority cultures within Spain, and the ongoing repercussions of past trauma and historical memory. In doing so, they build upon theories of identity, subjectivity, gender, history, memory, and normativity.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Author : Andrés Stoopendaal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 166802019X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Dunning-Kruger Effect written by Andrés Stoopendaal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An over-educated, under-employed man struggles to complete his novel and get his life together over the course of one scorching hot Swedish summer in this clever, provocative, and hilarious novel that is already an acclaimed sensation abroad. Convinced of his own moral and intellectual superiority, the nameless protagonist of this debut novel is also paralyzed by self-consciousness. Yet, inspired by Stephen King’s On Writing, he decides to dedicate four hours a day to work on his own novel over the course of one summer. Only, he must also balance his creative goals with a part-time government job and looking after his girlfriend’s possibly brain-damaged Pomeranian dog. Too bad he’s uninspired by his job, almost kills the dog, and realizes his novel is slowly morphing into misguided fan fiction about French writer and enfant terrible Michel Houellebecq. Even when he’s alone, he can’t help but pontificate before an imagined audience, making over-the-top cases for and against all manner of culture war battles, referencing everyone from Spike Lee to Grumpy Cat. He obsesses over identity politics, and veers into dangerous territory as he and his androgynous girlfriend engage in sexual role-play. He’s an emblem of all the follies of our age—happily unaware that in his refusal to be ordinary, he’s become a walking cliché of misguided manhood. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a portrait of a person belatedly coming of age, a blistering takedown of a privileged man who believes he’s a revolutionary, and “a crackling firework display of comic brilliance” (Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden).

Indiscreet

Author : Carolyn Jewel
Publisher : cJewel Books
ISBN 13 : 0983382697
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Indiscreet written by Carolyn Jewel and published by cJewel Books. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman disgraced by a lie. A beast of a man with a cold heart. Their love will transcend continents. Sabine Goddard is a young woman of high standing raised by her Oxford Don uncle. When a lie destroys her reputation, she and her elderly uncle travel to Turkey to escape the gossip. In Constantinople, she meets Edward, Marquess of Foye, a man hurt by the lie that forced her to leave London. Foye fascinates Sabine. He's outsized and refers to himself as a beast, but he doesn't care that she's better educated than many men. His belief in her innocence intrigues her and earns her admiration. Sabine captivates Foye and the far-from-handsome man can scarcely believe she returns his feelings. When Sabine and her uncle fall into the hands of a Turkish Pasha, Foye will do anything to secure the safety of the woman he loves. Indiscreet moves from Regency England to the exotic locales of Turkey and Syria in the midst of the Napoleonic wars. The winner of the 2010 Bookseller's Best Award for Best Short Historical Fiction, it features fast pacing, simmering chemistry, meticulous research, and strong central characters.

Uniform Fantasies

Author : Jeffrey Schneider
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487549628
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Uniform Fantasies written by Jeffrey Schneider and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army’s prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices. In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, Uniform Fantasies uncovers a particularly modern set of concerns about such topics as outing closeted homosexuals, the presence of gay men in the military, and whether men in uniform are more masculine or more insecure about their sexual identity.