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Title:

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

Publisher:

SR Books,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Stevens, Donald Fithian, 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239).

Contents:

Never read history again? The possibilities and perils of cinema as historical depiction -- Columbus takes on the forces of darkness, or film and historical myth in 1492 : The Conquest of Paradise -- Whose conquest is this, anyway? Aguirre, the Wrath of God -- I, the Worst of All : the literary life of Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz -- The Mission and historical missions : film and the writing of history -- Passion and patriarchy in nineteenth-century Argentina : María Luisa Bemberg's Camila -- Recasting Cuban slavery : The Other Francisco and The Last Supper -- Lucía : inventing women's history on film -- Gabriela : an evocation of elite culture in early twentieth-century Latin America -- Why Tita didn't marry the doctor, or Mexican history in Like Water for Chocolate -- Depicting the past in Argentine films : family drama and historical debate in Miss Mary and The Official Story -- Pixote : fiction and reality in Brazilian life.

Series:

Latin American silhouettes

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36662956

LCCN:

97010742

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 791.43/628

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)