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    Luiz Fernando Carvalho's Contemporary Vision

    by Eli Carter ...
    Series series Latinx and Latin American Profiles
    The Brazilian television industry is one of the most productive and commercially successful in the world. At the forefront of this industry is TV Globo and its production of standardized telenovelas, which millions of Brazilians and viewers from over 130 countries watch nightly. Eli Lee Carter examines the field of television production by focusing on the work of one of Brazil's greatest living ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The New Brazilian Mediascape

    Television Production in the Digital Streaming Age

    Series series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
    How new media is ushering in a more diverse Brazilian national identityIn this book, Eli Carter explores the ways in which the movement away from historically popular telenovelas toward new television and internet series is creating dramatic shifts in how Brazil imagines itself as a nation, especially within the context of an increasingly connected global mediascape. For more than half a century, ... Read more

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    An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

    Narrated by Lillian Carter ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 35 min

    "An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant" is an unconventional immigrant memoir written by Marcus Eli Ravage in 1917. Ravage, a Jewish American writer and journalist originally from Romania, provides a unique perspective on Americanization and the immigrant experience during the early 20th century. Here are some key points about this thought-provoking work: Context and Purpose: ... Read more

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  • Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century

    Series series Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies
    This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema.While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic ... Read more

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  • Comics and Memory in Latin America

    Series Book 74 - Illuminations
    Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, ... Read more

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  • Caribes 2.0

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    Series series Global Media and Race
    In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the poor, the marginalized, and the racialized. Caribes 2.0 looks at these tropes as well as the work of writers, vloggers, performers, and ... Read more

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  • REMEX

    Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

    REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the ... Read more

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  • Animation in Mexico, 2006 to 2022

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    Edited by David S. Dalton ...
    Series series SUNY series in Latin American Cinema
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  • A Companion to Latin American Cinema

    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century.Features contributions from international critics, historians, and scholars, along with interviews with acclaimed Latin American film ... Read more

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  • El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond

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    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El Eternauta. After Oesterheld was “disappeared” under the military dictatorship, El Eternauta became one ... Read more

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  • Chicano Popular Culture, Second Edition

    Que Hable el Pueblo

    Series series The Mexican American Experience
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