Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño

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...

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El Guernica es sin duda la más afamada obra de arte de nuestro siglo. Se ha dicho también que es "un gran dibujo en blanco y negro", apenas pintura, por la falta de colores, pero en este libro se dan las claves para descubrir la gran obra del siglo XX.

Este estudio plantea la cinefilia como una subcultura y la relaciona con otras prácticas sociales ?las modas, los estilos de vida, los gustos musicales, las culturas del ocio? utilizadas por la cultura popular para definir su identidad, legitimarse como grupo y adquirir prestigio social. Partiendo de las aportaciones de sociólogos y teóricos de la cultura como Pierre Bourdieu o Raymond Williams, de los estudios de recepción, de las políticas de género y de los estudios subculturales, Fans, cinéfilos y cinéfagos intenta mostrar las implicaciones ideológicas y políticas de los gustos...