La caja de galletas

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...

This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are new sections on corpus linguistics and on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, an expanded chapter on the study of...

The global framework of the first Triennial of Chile included 3 international colloquiums directed by art critic Nelly Richards with the participation of international intellectuals and art administrators who during 7 days debated and reflected on the concepts in art of history, territory and identity. Some names included: Néstor García Canclini, Andrea Giunta, Adriana Valdes, Willy Thayer, Ana Lomgoni, Ticio Escobar, Guillermo Machuca, Pablo Oyarzún, Maria Berrios and others. "The limits of art are the main topic around in which this 1st Triennial de Chile is developed, exploring as a...

A partir de aquellos años de mediados del XIX en que Gil de Zárate publica la primera Historia de la Literatura, pensada sobre todo para que los alumnos de los institutos de Segunda Enseñanza se inicien en los aprendizajes literarios, asistimos a un paulatino desplazamiento de las retóricas y, a su vez, al abandono de la oralidad en los centros educativos. Con este ensayo hemos querido vencer la tradición silente que ha predominado en la escuela española de la modernidad para reivindicar, por un lado, la tradición escolar de las retoricas, que prestó una especial atención al hecho de ...