Cine. Toda la historia

Los cuentos de siempre, los que forman parte de nuestro imaginario, los que los niños quieren escuchar antes de dormir, puestos al día e ilustrados por María Jesús Álvarez, una artista de exquisito estilo. Una antología de cuentos clásicos inolvidables: La bella y la bestia / Pulgarcito / Rapunzel / El patito feo / Los músicos de Bremen / Las hadas / Los siete cabritillos y el lobo / Piel de asno / La reina de las nieves / El sastrecillo valiente / La sirenita / El traje nuevo del emperador / Alibabá y los cuarenta ladrones / El soldadito de plomo.

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

Featuring 100 fundamental films, this volume explores the legendary figures that have immortalized animation and traces the history of the genre. Listed in chronological order and including dates, comments, and anecdotes, the manual explores animated cinema's origins and its long, complex path in recent decades. With profiles of the 30 most definitive characters in the history of the medium—among them Bugs Bunny, Coraline, and Shrek—this reference follows their journeys and analyzes their lasting impact. Con 100 películas fundamentales, este volumen explora las figuras legendarias que...

A new take on an eclectic and controversial director James Morrison's critical study offers a comprehensive and critically engaged treatment on Roman Polanski's immense body of work. Tracing the filmmaker's remarkably diverse career from its beginnings to 2007, the book provides commentary on all of Polanski's major films in their historical, cultural, social, and artistic contexts. Morrison locates Polanski's work within the genres of comedy and melodrama, arguing that he is not merely obsessed with the theme of repression, but that his true interest is in the concrete—what is out in the...