El sol oscuro (Vol. 2)

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 ...

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...

Beto Ortiz vuelve al lugar del crimen. Es nuestro cronista de la huida. El prófugo que pasea por el mundo algunas tristezas pero siempre regresa, maltrecho, tras perder otra vez las mismas guerras: una familia que se deshace ante sus ojos, un corazón en perpetua clandestinidad, un país que se derrumba sobre su cabeza. Hay personas que son destinos y los destinos están escritos. Como este libro. Con la crueldad de un niño que trae noticias horribles con una sonrisa.

“... leer este libro equivale a hacer un viaje a una España áspera, cruel, apasionada y generosa en la que Sender buscó incansablemente la inocencia [...]. Y el viaje se realiza a través de un rico universo de periódicos y revistas”, en los que el autor ha localizado y estudiado unos 950 escritos senderianos.