Seeing in Spanish. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee (Sammelband)

22 Essays on Hispanic Visual Cultures


Allgemeine Angaben

Herausgeber

Tilmann AltenbergRyan Prout

Verlag
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Stadt
Newcastle
Publikationsdatum
2011
Auflage
1
Weiterführender Link
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Seeing-in-Spanish--From-Don-Quixote-to-Daddy-Yankee-22-Essays-on-Hispanic-Visual-Cultures1-4438-2935-8.htm
ISBN
978-1-4438-2935-9 ( im KVK suchen )
Thematik nach Sprachen
Spanisch
Disziplin(en)
Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft, Visuelle Kultur
Schlagwörter
Spanien, Lateinamerika

Exposé

Seeing in Spanish brings together 22 chapters which share a focus on aspects of visual cultures from the Spanish speaking world. Together these chapters address film, photography, cover art, body art, posters, television, architecture, ekphrasis, biography, murals, graffiti, and digital photo-montage. Between Don Quixote and Daddy Yankee, the essays move from the seventeenth century to the present and traverse Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.

The book is divided into five sections. The first of these, on Spain, includes chapters on the representation of women on LP covers in Spain in the 60s and 70s; portrayals in Spanish cinema of Saint Teresa; Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Tristana; urban and rural space in recent Spanish documentary film; Catalan television; fine art in Don Quixote; and visions of adoption in three narratives by Spanish writers and filmmakers. The second section, on Mexico and Peru, includes chapters on the fragmentary body in images of Mexico; the art of Abraham Ángel; Jesús Ruiz Durand’s agrarian reform posters; Diego Rivera’s murals; and the role of artistic production in staging the 2006 Oaxaca conflict. The third section, on Cuba, looks at the portrayal of women and of children in recent cinema from the island. It also examines Nancy Morejón’s celebration of the life and art of exiled Cuban artist Ana Mendieta. Section four includes chapters on Chile and Argentina. It addresses street art and graffiti; new forms of publishing; Chilean cinema after Pinochet; and Violeta Parra’s appliqué and collage works. Section five embraces Colombia, Bolivia, and virtual spaces. The contributions to this last section of the book examine childhood in Colombian cinema; the online creativity of pro- and anti-fans of reggaeton; and the photographic diaries of T. Ifor Rees, the UK’s first ambassador to Bolivia. In addition to the geo-political structure which underpins the book’s five sections, the introduction suggests pathways through the contributions focussed on public art and graffiti, women, children, cyberspace and diplomacy, and reconstruction and disintegration.


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Ersteller des Eintrags
Tilmann Altenberg
Erstellungsdatum
Montag, 13. Juni 2011, 20:37 Uhr
Letzte Änderung
Montag, 25. November 2013, 15:28 Uhr