Desplazamiento lingüístico y revitalización

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

Este libro es el resultado de una investigación sobre la paradoja que se produce en la sociedad vasca: la abrumadora hegemonía de la prensa no nacionalista entre un público que da su voto, mayoritariamente, al nacionalismo. El análisis sobre la disociación del comportamiento ciudadano, tan diferente ante el quiosco y ante la urna, arroja datos que cuestionan el debatido mito de la influencia de los medios; profundiza en los hábitos y motivaciones de los lectores, subraya una capacidad crítica y una autonomía ideológica que contradice la facultad y la intencionalidad, obsesivamente...

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

El objetivo principal de este diccionario es ofrecer una fuente de consulta b sica sobre la producci n de los compositores mexicanos de m sica de concierto en el siglo XX. Las fichas de cada autor proporcionan datos biogr ficos, un breve resumen de su formaci n y trayectoria como compositor e incluyen un amplio cat logo de su producci n musical, desde obras Para solistas hasta las m s ambiciosas, que requieren de grandes ejecuciones orquestales.