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Title:

Based on a true story : Latin American history at the movies / edited by Donald F. Stevens.

Edition:

1st SR Books ed.

Publisher:

SR Books,

Copyright Date:

2005, c1997

Description:

xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Latin America--In motion pictures.
Latin Americans in motion pictures.
Historical films--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Stevens, Donald Fithian, 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Pixote : fiction and reality in Brazilian life / Robert M. Levine. Columbus takes on the forces of darkness, or film and historical myth in 1492 : The Conquest of Paradise / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera and Sergio Rivera Ayala -- Whose conquest is this, anyway? Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Thoms H. Holloway -- I, the Worst of All : the literary life of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz / Susan E. Ramirez -- The Mission and historical missions : film and the writing of history / James Schofield Saeger -- Passion and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Argentina : María Luisa Bemberg's Camila / Donald F. Stevens -- Recasting Cuban slavery : The Other Francisco and The Last Supper / John Mraz -- Lucía : inventing women's history on film / Barbara Weinstein -- Gabriela : an evocation of elite culture in early twentieth-century Latin America / James D. Hendersen -- Why Tita didn't marry the doctor, or Mexican history in Like Water for Chocolate / Barbara A. Tenenbaum -- Depicting the past in Argentine films : family drama and historical debate in Miss Mary and The Official Story / Mark D. Szuchman -- Pixote : fiction and reality in Brazilian life / Robert M. Levine.

Series:

Latin American silhouettes

ISBN:

0842027815
9780842027816

OCLC:

(OCoLC)171218558

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)