"This new edition of Latin American History Goes to the Movies uses a variety of feature films as a method of studying key historical themes in Latin America, from pre-Columbian cultures to contemporary debates. The book provides historical context as a way of interpreting Latin American filmography
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, offering multiple classroom viewing options per chapter theme. Each chapter is dedicated to a central concept or issue, such as stereotypes, conquest and colonialism, revolution, religion, gender, and politics. The second edition includes four additional chapters on dictatorships, LGBTQIA+ issues, the environment, and Indigenous peoples. Twenty new films, including La Fiesta del Chivo, Fresa y Chocolate, Embrace of the Serpent, and Roma appear throughout this edition, presenting additional perspectives and updates for today’s readers. The discussions of films and the history behind them offer a flexible and nuanced approach to understanding Latin American cultures, differentiating between stereotypical depictions and the realities of history." (Publisher description)
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"The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called popular or pop culture (cinema, genre
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fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts." (Publisher description)
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"Nirgends ist die Vergangenheit des 20. Jahrhunderts so präsent wie in Romanen und Filmen. Zahlreiche Werke der Literatur und des Films erinnern diese Zeitgeschichte, indem sie darüber Geschichten erzählen. Auf diese Weise wird eine Erinnerungskultur gestiftet, die identitätsbildend und zugleich
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interpretationsbedürftig ist. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen die deutschen und europäischen Erinnerungsorte von Krieg, Holocaust, Widerstand, Flucht und Vertreibung, von Mauerbau, Friedlicher Revolution, deutscher und europäischer Einheit. Der Autor untersucht das Verhältnis von Fakten und Fiktionen, die Ethik des Erzählens, die Unterschiede zwischen Täter- und Opfergedächtnis sowie die Frage, ob und inwiefern man aus der Geschichte lernen kann. Einzelne Themen sind Hitler im Film („Der Untergang“), der Widerstandsfilm („Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage“, „Operation Walküre“), die Erinnerungs-Collage (Walter Kempowskis „Das Echolot“), die Nachkriegsdeportation (Herta Müllers „Atemschaukel“), der DDR-Endzeitroman (Uwe Tellkamps „Der Turm“) und Mauerfall-Geschichten (u.a. von Durs Grünbein)." (Buchrücken)
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"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d
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"Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking throughout Africa. As a whole, the collection highlights the distinct thematic, stylistic,
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and socioeconomic circumstances of African filmmaking. Individual essays show how conditions in Africa have generated a broad range of views and techniques, from the stylistically innovative documentaries of Jean-Marie Teno and Abderrahmane Sissako and the "documentary fiction" of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun to the vibrant art films of Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the new films from South Africa. Contributors also outline the direction of increasingly popular, less didactic sub-Saharan filmmaking in films such as Daniel Kamwa's Pousse-Pousse, Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle, and Imungu Ivanga's Dôlé." (Publisher description)
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"The book discusses how trauma presented in the media spills over national boundaries and can be found in images across divergent cultures in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America." (Publisher description)
"Discusses historical films. Also provides an excellent teaching guide to films arranged by themes in Brazilian history. Includes an excellent bibliography on Brazilian film." (Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources. Ed. Paula H. Covington. New York et al.: Greenwood P
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ress, 1992, nr. 4328)
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