Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema : Nature, Gender, and Agency 9781498555142, 9781498555135

Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema 9780292798694

Viewing contemporary Latin American films through the lens of queer studies reveals that many filmmakers are exploring i

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Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature 1855663422, 9781855663428

In the last two decades, the glorification of sewing - whether involving needlework, tailoring, or fashion design - has

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Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism 9780520940147

Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world. For conve

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Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781350114586, 9781350119390, 9781350114579

Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presente

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Fat on Film: Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781350114586, 9781350114579, 9781350114593

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Contemporary Latin American cinema: breaking into the global market 9780742539143, 0742539148, 9780742539150, 0742539156

This engaging book explores some of the most significant films to emerge from Latin America since 2000, an extraordinary

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Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History 9780520963535

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America’s national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major c

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Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film 9780748674428

Over the past ten years Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, whi

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Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema 9781477314272

Jews have always played an important role in the generation of culture in Latin America, despite their relatively small

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The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 9781628929010, 9780826428615

While the myth of a classless America endures in the American Dream, the very stratification that it denies unfairly aff

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