John R. Palandech was a well-known immigrant publisher, politician, and entrepreneur in Chicago from the Gilded Age to the post–World War II era. This article retraces his biography and crosses it with the transatlantic political, cultural, and economic world Palandech was a part of and actor in. At the core of this study is a collection of l…[Read more]

The Brazilian Northeast has been a constant subject for journalists of one of the world’s leading media companies – The New York Times – between 1933 and 1945. This study investigates the multiple Northeast representations formulated in The New York Times’ pages when the Americans were spotlight is on the region. It delineates similarities and…[Read more]

Edición argentina del libro “A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina”, publicado en 2014 en Brasil. Colección “Imagen e Historia”, dirigida por Natalia Taccetta y Mariano Veliz, de Prometeo Libros. Traducción al español por Daniel Maggi.

Um estudo sobre a obra da cineasta argentina Lucrecia Martel, focado no som em seus três primeiros longas-metragens “La ciénaga”, “La niña santa” e “La mujer sin cabeza”.

O desejo de revelar as realidades conflitivas de seus países estimulou os cineastas latino-americanos a explorarem o potencial político do cinema e, especialmente, do documentário, a partir de 1950. Em um contexto de aceleradas mudanças, sob a égide do desenvolvimentismo, diversos diretores voltaram seus olhares a territórios marginalizados do co…[Read more]

A aproximação subjetiva e íntima dos cineastas em documentários políticos é uma tendência muito produtiva no cinema latino-americano contemporâneo. A perspectiva escapa do tom de denúncia e da documentação mais objetiva, retratando um diálogo com o passado pessoal – sem, no entanto, abdicar dos laços com o passado histórico. As diretoras dos d…[Read more]

Pretendemos hacer algunas consideraciones sobre la película “La mujer sin cabeza” (2008), de Lucrecia Martel, explorando la cuestión del olvido intrincada en su trama. A través de la protagonista, Verónica, la directora busca hacer un acercamiento personal a los mecanismos de silenciamiento y desmemoria en los cuales la sociedad (tanto hoy com…[Read more]

Catalogue of homonymous film festival that took place in Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB Rio de Janeiro, from 21st September to 3rd October 2016, and CCBB São Paulo, from 21st September to 10th October 2016.

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]

O Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (NCL), movimento cinematográfico mais conhecido da história do cinema da América Latina, começou a ter seu cânone gestado já em seus primeiros anos (trabalhamos os anos de 1967 e 1985 como marcos inicial e final do movimento). Tiveram participação decisiva nesta construção, e influenciaram fortemente a bibliogra…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy?s profile on the network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It…[Read more]

Hasta hace poco, los estudios sobre las prácticas musicales al interior de una logia masónica cubana eran casi inexistentes. Con la identificación de la Música para ritual masónico de Ramón Figueroa Morales dentro del Archivo de Música de la Catedral de Santiago de Cuba (AMCSC), se dio el primer paso hacia el entendimiento del tema en cuesti…[Read more]

The Ukamau group has a long history that spans more than sixty years. The oral accounts acknowledge that women participated in all the different phases of the group, undertaking instrumental roles in front of and behind the camera. However, they have been overshadowed and erased from the official history due to the auteurist and formalist…[Read more]

Este trabajo tiene como finalidad estudiar brevemente el comportamiento de Popé (Po’pay), líder de la rebelión de los indios Pueblo de 1680. En cuanto al análisis del liderazgo de Popé, existen algunas obras que lo abordan, sin embargo no lo hacen con variables claras y explicitas, a lo que este trabajo busca contribuir, otorgando herr…[Read more]

La Operación Carlota fue, y continúa siendo, la mayor campaña militar latinoamericana en otro continente. Mediante la lectura de los principales momentos (de forma muy general y lo más resumido posible), sus antecedentes y unas breves reflexiones sobre esta campaña militar, se busca difundir y dar a conocer un acontecimiento poco conocido, que,…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the reception and influence of the Alliance for Progress in Venezuela during the 1960s (1961-1969). The US assistance program financed various social projects in Latin American countries, with the aim of promoting local development, and at the same time counteracting the impact of the Cuban Revolution (1959). Methodologically,…[Read more]

This essay analyzes the role of the Chilean Army in the debate for development and the Alliance for Progress in the country between 1961 and 1970. The Army followed the idea of development through articles in its magazines, and contributed with it through of special courses for conscript soldiers, as well as in construction tasks carried out by…[Read more]

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This article analyzes the immigration policy of the Venezuelan State during administration of Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958). From December 1952 until January 1958, Marcos Pérez Jiménez governs Venezuela, first as interim president (un…[Read more]

The following historiographical study is referred to the History of the Portuguese in Venezuela (1959), by Miguel Acosta Saignes, it hill analyze the work of critical and reflective way, both internally and externally, to elucidate its contribution to one of the process greatest historic modern Venezuela, such as immigration, as well as…[Read more]