El circo invisible

Clarence Brown es uno de los grandes cineastas olvidados del Hollywood clásico. Meramente conocido como el "director favorito de Greta Garbo", porque guió a la estrella sueca en más ocasiones que ningún otro ¿siete en total¿, incluyendo los "clásicos" "Flesh and the Devil" (1926) y "Anna Karenina" (1935), también fue el realizador que más veces dirigió a Joan Crawford y Clark Gable. Ahora bien, su producción íntegra es mucho más rica y compleja que su vinculación con el star system de Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

This volume presents varied approaches concerning the relation between cinema and politics which focus on policies, eras, countries, mainstream and art cinema productions, transnational examples, changing narratives and identities. Both cinema and politics have actors and directors for their scenes, and in this sense their discourses intermingle. The performances of the “actors/actresses” in both arenas attract particular attention. The actors, directors, and producers with ‘hyphenated/creolised/hybrid identities’ such as German-Turks, directors of Balkan cinema, or Italian filmmakers ...

Cabrera introduces the reader to philosophy through the analysis of specific moments in various films, which lets him think about the philosophical matters manifested in them. In short, one hundred years of images trying to rethink 2500 years of thinking.

Rose is a girl who can travel thanks to her imagination. She travels to Kilamanjaro where she meets a boy, Festo, who presents her to the wizard of his tribe. The story is about the adventures and dangers they encounter looking for her missing father.