Latin American History at the Movies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stevens, Donald F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Movies are meant to be entertaining, but they can also be educational. People are naturally curious to know how much of what they see on their screens might be historically true. In Latin American History at the Movies, experts on Latin America focus on five centuries of history as portrayed in feature films. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past in movies sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America made from the 1980s to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538152478
• Artikelnr.: 65737136

Autorenporträt

Donald F. Stevens is professor emeritus of history at Drexel University. His books include Mexico in the Time of Cholera.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Jaguar Paw's World: Thoughts on Apocalypto and Mesoamerican
History
Camilla Townsend
Chapter 2: Whose Conquest Is This, Anyway?: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Thomas H. Holloway
Chapter 3: I, the Worst of All: The Literary Life of Sor Juana Inés de la
Cruz
Susan Elizabeth Ramirez
Chapter 4: A French Comedy, the Inquisition, Dirty Dancing, and a
Sociopath: Hidalgo-La Historia Jamás Contada
Donald F. Stevens
Chapter 5: Passion and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Argentina: María
Luisa Bemberg's Camila
Donald F. Stevens
Chapter 6: In Search of a New Ecology: Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent
in the Age of Climate Crisis
Daniel O. Mosquera
Chapter 7: History, Autobiography, and Truth in Euzhan Palcy's
Rue Cases-Nègres
Mohamed Kamara
Chapter 8: From Gap Year Hijinks to Collectivist Awakenings: Che Guevara's
Motorcycle Diaries in Fact and Fiction
Thomas C. Field Jr.
Chapter 9: Kidnappings of Diplomats and Revolutionary Politics in
Authoritarian Brazil: The Tale of Two Films, Four Days in September and
Marighella
James N. Green
Chapter 10: "If You Don't Cheat, You'll Face Defeat: La Ley de Herodes,
Corruption, and Authoritarianism in Mexico
Jürgen Buchenau and Madison Green
Chapter 11: National Politics, Intimate Labor: The Work to Sustain
Middle-Class Households in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma
Susie S. Porter
Chapter 12: "How Historical Are You Trying to Be?": Romero
Kevin Coleman
Chapter 13: Salvador: Oliver Stone's Odyssey through the First Year of El
Salvador's Civil War
Erik Ching
Chapter 14: The Dancer Upstairs and the Hunt for Sendero Luminoso's
Presidente Gonzalo
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
Chapter 15: También la Lluvia: Screening Resistance to Columbus and
Bolivia's Anti-Neoliberal Water War
Leo J. Garofalo
About the Contributors