La era del drama en televisión : Perdidos, CSI, Las Vegas, El ala Oeste de la Casa Blanca, Mujeres desesperadas y House

The first in a series, this collection of essays addresses the role of documentary film in negotiations of national identity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Twenty essays by scholars from Latin America, the USA, and Europe analyze narrations of nation in this genre, focusing on documentary film as a political medium, representations of the margins of the nation, postmodern documentary aesthetics, the function of documentaries in terms of cultural memory, and recent revisions of documentary film history. In a concluding section, four renowned filmmakers from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and...

A major monograph on the monumental sculptures of Peraza (b. México 1959). Fine edition with close to 600 photographs that illustrate the life and art of Peraza as recalled by his brother, the author.

'¿Cómo se aprende a improvisar? ¿O, en todo caso, cómo se aprende cualquier arte? ¿O cualquier cosa? Es una contradicción, un oximoron. Vaya y dígale a alguien: 'íSé espontáneo!'. O trate de que alguien se lo diga a usted. Nos sometemos a maestros de música, de baile o de taller literario que pueden criticar o sugerir. Pero por debajo de todo eso lo que realmente nos piden es que 'seamos espontáneos', que 'seamos creativos'. Y eso, por supuesto, es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo. ¿Cómo se aprende a improvisar? La única respuesta es otra pregunta: ¿qué nos lo impide? La...

In this work, the Spanish copulae ser and estar are argued to be aspectual morphemes. Their binary opposition reflects the universal aspectual values ÃÃplus or minus¨Perfective¨, which are the same ones overtly expressed by the preterite and imperfect past tense forms in Spanish. It can therefore be shown that different types of states, just like different types of events, can be categorized based on their aspectual composition. Additionally, the inherent semantic differences between events and states can be accounted for by analyzing aspect as applying to events internally and to...