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Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

Materiales de apoyo para crear el hábito de leer en el alumnado de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, con la novedad de abordar esta tarea desde el relato heroico de obras contemporáneas, tan atractivas para adolescentes y jóvenes como El Señor de los Anillos, la serie de Harry Potter y La historia interminable. Desde ellas, los jóvenes lectores pueden enlazar con otros relatos heroicos clásicos: Mío Cid, Lazarillo, Don Quijote, etc. Se analiza el origen y desarrollo de este género literario y se ofrecen criterios metodológicos, guías para la lectura y Unidades Didácticas sobre...

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. But it’s fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here. Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert’s third collection of essays on the crème de la crème of...

El arte realista del siglo XX es apasionante por su diversidad. Carece de un estilo compartido y de un manifiesto de intenciones. Y, sin embargo, el hilo conductor del arte realista es su compromiso con el mundo moderno y con las cosas tal y como son. Este libro examina el realismo en Europa y América, comenzando por sus raíces en las ideas de Gustave Courbet en la Francia del siglo XIX. Los comentarios sobre la vida urbana en la Alemania de Weimar, pintados por Georg Grosz, o las elevadas pinturas de Edward Hopper y Grant Wood, son ejemplos de los planteamientos realistas. El autor...