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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Proyecto de creación de una Industria Básica de apoyo a la Fuerza Armada en Venezuela durante el Gobierno militar de Marcos Pérez Jiménez in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe period from 1948 to 1958, relating to the so called ” military decade ” in Venezuela, has been portrayed by the traditional historiography, as the big works of ” I make concrete armed “, of pursuit and political violence. Slightly certain. But staying of side, several emptinesses, lagoons, for explaining and to understand in his just…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited La concepción de la Guerra a través de las revistas militares chilenas (1960-1970) in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis paper analyses the study and discussion of the concept of “unconventional warfare” in different Chilean military reviews between 1960 and 1970, with a view to clarifying the military thought of this period in Chile. Research has shown that the Chilean military discussed variants of this type of conflict, such as “revolutionary war” at the str…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Ejército y coyuntura: acción militar en el terremoto de Valdivia de 1960 in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis paper analyzes the military action response of the Chilean Army during and after the Earthquake of Valdivia of May 21th, 1960 and their impact on the armed institution and civil-military relations. After the strong earthquake, the government of Jorge Alessandri decreed “Emergency Zone” and authorizing the direct deployment of the army, und…[Read more]
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Bill Hughes deposited CFP: ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAs Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic novel), eighteenth-century poetics talked of ‘the fairy kind of writing’ which, for Addison, ‘raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader’…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Cosmopoéticas do espectador selvagem in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoCom base na análise das formas cinematográficas de reconstituição da história em Serras da desordem, Corumbiara e Taego Ãwa, identifico a importância da figura dos espectadores indígenas para a compreensão das imagens que os filmes criam e mobilizam. Argumento que o contracampo efetivo, virtual ou espectral dos espectadores indígenas constitui…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited O macaco com a câmera na mão: montagem anarquívica e devir-animal em Leo Pyrata in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoEste artigo discute os principais filmes de curta metragem dirigidos por Leo Pyrata, que exploram a figura do “macaco com a câmera na mão”, mencionada em Cuauhtémoc (2012), para insinuar o devir-animal como prática criativa. Em diálogo com linhagens do cinema experimental e da videoarte, Pyrata elabora modos de montagem anarquívica e reivindic…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Cosmopolíticas e cosmopoéticas do contato in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSe o estudo do que Clarisse denomina filmes de contato depende de uma compreensão histórica do que está em jogo em cada uma das obras abordadas, sua análise de Os últimos isolados (Adrian Cowell, 1967-1999), Corumbiara (Vincent Carelli, 1986-2009) e Os Arara (Andrea Tonacci, 1980-) busca pensar a relação entre culturas como experiência aberta…[Read more]
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Antonio Sotomayor deposited The Nationalist Movement and the Struggle for Freedom in Puerto Rico’s Olympic Sport. in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis chapter examines the process by which Puerto Rican nationalists engaged with the Olympic Movement in their struggle for decolonization. Sotomayor shows not only shifting meanings of colonial Olympic sport for nationalists, but, more generally, that the Olympic Movement has been used and serves as a platform to negotiate nationalism and…[Read more]
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Edwin Culp deposited Landscapes of Disappearance in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoI analyze the strategies used in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz 2010), Enrique Buchichio’s Behind the Truth (Zanahoria 2014) and Nicolas Pereda’s Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliath 2010) to expose the political uses of landscape images in concealing and reconstructing forced disappearances and the violence surro…[Read more]
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Edwin Culp deposited Landscapes of Disappearance in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoI analyze the strategies used in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz 2010), Enrique Buchichio’s Behind the Truth (Zanahoria 2014) and Nicolas Pereda’s Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliath 2010) to expose the political uses of landscape images in concealing and reconstructing forced disappearances and the violence surro…[Read more]
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Steven Aoun deposited Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Return of the King), Passion of Christ and Schindlers List in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA very critical overview of seemingly disparate films
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Bill Hughes deposited In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children, ed. Sam George & Bill Hughes – Book Launch and Film Screening, 29 February 2020, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, UK in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoYou are cordially invited to a special event to celebrate ten years of the Open Graves, Open Minds project and to launch our new book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children.
In the Company of Wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety…[Read more] -
Edwin Culp deposited El discreto (y cómico) encanto de la sobremesa in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoEl texto explora el uso del tiempo y la producción de lo cómico en “El discreto encanto de la burguesía” (“Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie”, Luis Buñuel, Francia, 1972) y Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, Estados Unidos/Japón/Italia, 2003).
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Leticia Perez Alonso started the topic CFP: Cinematic Representations of Women in Modern Celebrity Culture (1900-1950) in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoWe invite proposals for contributions to an edited collection on cinematic representations of women in works of art, poetry, fiction, theater and criticism of the avant-garde. The popularization of film stars such as Blanche Sweet, Mae Marsh, Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo and Brigitte Helm shaped the cultural imaginary of modernity to such an extent…[Read more]
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Bregt Lameris deposited Materialità e sensazione storiche del film in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoArticle on the materiality of archival film prints and how this materiality can be duplicated on new projection prints and produce a historical sensation.
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Edwin Culp deposited Directing Actors for Non-Directors: Creative Research Strategies for Fiction Films in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThroughout film history, many famous scenes and even entire films have been devised with actors improvising on certain general parameters that ultimately depict a character, often vaguely portrayed. These turns to improvisation and narrative experimentation tend to come forward every time filmmakers propose a new rupture, frequently accompanied by…[Read more]
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Norberto Barreto Velázquez deposited LAS BUENAS INTENCIONES NO BASTAN: LA POLÍTICA EXTERIOR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS HACIA AMÉRICA LATINA EN EL SIGLO XX in the group
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the US government’s attempts throughout the 20th century to
improve its relations with Latin America. It shows that most of these efforts were
motivated by external factors such as wars or conflicts with other world powers. Although genuine, these attempts were ultimately subordinate to the United States’
geopolitical and…[Read more] -
Adelheid Heftberger deposited Kollision der Kader: Dziga Vertovs Filme, die Visualisierung ihrer Strukturen und die Digital Humanities in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited Music for the Kingdom of Shadows: Cinema Accompaniment in the Age of Spiritualism in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn this book, I explore the connections between music for early movies (1895-1927) involving the supernatural in the context of the culture of the time in regard to supernatural beliefs and entertainments, particularly spiritualism.
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Ryan Watson deposited Affective radicality: prisons, Palestine, and interactive documentary in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]
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