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A study of the first half-century of cable television and why it never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication.

In this collection of essays, Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the "tween" years between little boyhood and adolescence.

Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L . Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided a foundation for trends and movements that have continued to shape literary production in Spanish America throughout the twentieth century. Jrade opens with a systematic consideration of the development of modernismo and then proceeds with detailed analyses of works--poetry, narrative, and essays--that typified and altered the movement's course. In this way, she situates the writing of key authors, such as Ruben Dario, Jose Marti, and Leopoldo Lugones, within the overall modernista project and traces modernismo's influence on subsequent generations of writers. Jrade's analysis reclaims the power of the visionary stance taken by these creative intellectuals. She firmly abolishes any lingering tendency to associate modernismo with affectation and effete elegance, revealing instead how the modernistas' new literary language expressed their profound political and epistemological concerns.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Prudence Mackintosh recounts life with her adolescent sons as they race headlong to first jobs, first driver's licenses, first girlfriends, and first flights away from the family nest.

A colonial Spanish bishop's project to evangelize Mexico.

Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference.

Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.

How the image of Muslim women changed in Western literature from medieval times to the Romantic era.

A fascinating look at how newspaper publishers including A. H. Belo and George B. Dealey (Dallas Morning News), William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby (Houston Post), Jesse H. Jones (Houston Chronicle), and Amon G. Carter Sr. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) pla

The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.

How five prominent Roman historians disclosed events that had been deliberately shrouded in secrecy and silence.

This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.

An exploration of why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own.

A literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history.

Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.

This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside.

An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

An in-depth study of current civil-military relations in democratic countries worldwide.

Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporaneos--Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustin Lazo, Guadalupe Marin, and Jorge Cuesta--and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the rea

The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.

The history of a small town in Mexico.

An anthology of works by a beloved Texas writer.

An account of the people and poliics of Texas during the 1820s.

The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.

';A taut narrative in elegant prose... Horne has unearthed a vitally important and mostly forgotten aspect of Hollywood and labor history.' Publishers Weekly As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences. This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the CSU strike and the resulting lockout of 1946. Gerald Horne draws extensively on primary materials and oral histories to document how limited a ';threat' the Communist party actually posed in Hollywood, even as studio moguls successfully used the Red scare to undermine union clout, prevent film stars from supporting labor, and prove the moguls' own patriotism. Horne also discloses that, unnoticed amid the turmoil, organized crime entrenched itself in management and labor, gaining considerable control over both the ';product' and the profits of Hollywood. This research demonstrates that the CSU strike and lockout were a pivotal moment in Hollywood history, with consequences for everything from production values, to the kinds of stories told in films, to permanent shifts in the centers of power.

A new vision for living on the land, a "land ethic" that respects the stability, integrity, and beauty of the "land community."

How the popular images of women in Mexican literature have changed in the 20th century.

This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed.

The daily life of an Andean village, as seen by an American visitor.