Más allá de Star Wars

Este libro recopila los mas importantes ensayos, entrevistas y notas de trabajo de Rainer Werner Fassbinder, quizas el director aleman mas influyente de cuantos emergieron del oscuro panorama del cine de su pais a partir de la posguerra. En estas paginas, Fassbinder reflexiona sobre su propia obra, escribe sobre otros directores, describe su relacion con la actriz Hanna Schygulla o reivindica el caracter politico del cine, adoptando en todo ello una perspectiva subjetiva, apasionada y radical.Sea como fuere, los textos de este volumen, presentados aqui por primera vez en castellano, son una...

This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different research backgrounds to deal with diverse topics under the general premise that an evaluative process underlies every persuasive act and...

In a not so distant future, the wealthy will be able to buy anything they want, including the bodies of the young and poor to inhabit; this creates an environment where nothing is exactly what it seems.

La Cerca,” Fenci's solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico. The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by-9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials. All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for The Wall” as the exhibition's title. We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they're all...