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Ramon Novarro: The Life and Films of the First Latino ...

Ramon Novarro: The Life and Films of the First Latino ...

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

The Life and Films of the First Latino Hollywood Superstar Frank Javier Garcia Berumen. $12.50 Silent film stars, with few exceptions, have been overlooked in assessments of motion picture history. While Ramon Novarro has not been ...
Nationalism and Narratives of Subjectivity in the Cold War ...

Nationalism and Narratives of Subjectivity in the Cold War ...

Stacey Van Dahm

69 The 2001 “I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special” for TV included well-know Hispanic actors like Antonio Banderas and Andy Garcia making similar claims about Desi Arnaz's role in American culture. 70 See Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, ...
Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, ...

Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, ...

Scott L. Baugh

Comparable appreciation catalogs include Hispanic Hollywood by George Hadley-Garcia and The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen. 3. Of particular importance to Latino cinema studies, there is ...
Brown Celluloid: 1894-1959

Brown Celluloid: 1894-1959

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

The long-undervalued contributions to U.S. cinema made by Americans of Latino/a heritage are celebrated in this impressive treatise, which draws a line connecting modernity to the past and merits a place on every film buff's bookshelf.
Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and ...

Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and ...

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

It was directed by Alejandro Grattan, who also wrote the screenplay. ... The narrative revolves around Francisco Domínguez (Miguel Robledo), a Mexican immigrant whose life takes a tragic turn when his wife Juanita (Socorro Swan) dies ...
American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki ...

American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki ...

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80-111. 27. Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film (New York: Vantage Press, 1995), p. 200. 28. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Differend (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 77 -79. 29.
Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in ...

Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in ...

Doris Sommer

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film ( New York: Vantage Press, 1995), p. 199. 18. Paredes, "With His Pistol in His Hand," p. 154. "En el condado de Carnes / miren lo que ha sucedido, / murio el Cherife ...
Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and ...

Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and ...

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For a discussion of Latino images in film, see Frank Javier Garcia Berumen's The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film (1995), Charles Ramírez Berg's Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, Resistance (2002), and Clara ...
Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and ...

Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and ...

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Parish, James Robert, and William T. Leonard. Hollywood Players: The Thirties. Carlsbad, NJ: Rainbow Books, 1976. Parish, James Robert, and Michael R. Pitts. The Great Western Pictures. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Pettit, Arthur  ...
Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for ...

Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for ...

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

"Edward R. Roybal: The Mexican American Struggle for Political Empowerment" showcases Roybal's accomplishments as a leader in the political struggles of his time and inspires us all to work for the betterment of our communities.
Disenso e incertidumbre: un homenaje a Javier Muguerza

Disenso e incertidumbre: un homenaje a Javier Muguerza

Javier Muguerza

Durante las cuatro últimas décadas, Javier Muguerza ha contribuido como nadie a la modernización del pensamiento español, dando a conocer y comentando lo mejor que se publicaba en otras lenguas, particularmente en lo tocante a la ...
?Coraz¢n tan blanco? von Javier Mar¡as zwischen Trivial- und ...

?Coraz¢n tan blanco? von Javier Mar¡as zwischen Trivial- und ...

Christian Amtsberg

7.3. Bibliographie der wichtigsten spanischen und internationalen Rezeption von CTB87 7.3.1. Interviews Alameda, S01; Javier Marías. El éxito europeo de un indeciso; in: El País Semanal, 10.11.1996; S. 58-66. Arco, Miguel Ángel del; Javier ...
The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and ...

The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and ...

Javier Irigoyen-García

The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity.
Chicharito - The Biography of Javier Hernandez

Chicharito - The Biography of Javier Hernandez

Frank Worrall

Still only 24 years old, the 'little pea' has committed himself to United until 2016 and looks set to help the Reds to yet more glory. This is his fascinating story.
Advances on remote laboratories and e-learning experiences

Advances on remote laboratories and e-learning experiences

Luís Gomes

Luís Gomes, Javier Garcia Zubia. Assessing e-learning in web labs Helena Matute, Miguel A. Vadillo Psychology Department, University of Deusto. Bilbao, Spain e-mail: ...
The Best Hull City Football Chants Ever

The Best Hull City Football Chants Ever

A Fan

Jimmy Bullard Better than Frank Lampard Better than Stevie Gerrard That's our Jimmy Bullard Oh Ian Ashbee He's the love of my life Oh Ian Ashbee I'd let him sh *g me wife Oh Ian Ashbee Ashbee's Hull through and through Garcia Oh Garcia ...
While the Women are Sleeping

While the Women are Sleeping

Javier Marías

Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Mar as is best known for his spy trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels.
English Historical Linguistics

English Historical Linguistics

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In: Javier Pe ́rez-Guerra, Dolores Gonza ́lez-A ́lvarez, Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso, and Esperanza Rama-Martınez (eds.), 161–235. ... In: Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Go ́mez-Garcıa, Iria Pastor-Go ́mez, and David Tizo ́n-Couto (eds.), 25–35.
Weapon

Weapon

Robert Mason

Robert Warren, Joe Garcia and Jim Ruiz, each holding a Coke, emerged from the store and walked to the van. “Your turn,” Warren said to Garcia. Garcia, short and dark with hairy, muscular arms, snatched himself up into the driver's seat with ...
Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier ...

Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier ...

Alexis Grohmann

This book is the first full-length study of Javier Marías's work to be published so far and serves both as an introduction to, and a close examination of, the work of a major European writer.
All Souls

All Souls

Javier Marías

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear

Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear

Javier Marías

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)
The Infatuations

The Infatuations

Javier Marías

With The Infatuations, Javier Marías brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality.
Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia

Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia

Robert Greenfield

In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best.
Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca: ...

Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca: ...

Rupert C. Allen

Five Plays: Comedies and Tragicomedies by Federico García Lorca. Translated by James GrahamLujan and Richard O'Connell. New York: New Directions, 1963 . . Obras completas. Madrid: Aguilar, 1967. . Three Tragedies of Federico García  ...
Electric Literature

Electric Literature

Javier Marias

Our fourth anthology is a celebration of the transportive joy and wonder of diving into a fully imagined world. Spanish author Javier Marías spins a tale of a mild-mannered teacher turned ghost-hunter.
A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Kirkwood, Cynthia Adina, “A Cuban Odyssey: It Took a Trip to Havana to Piece Together Cristina Garcia's History and Literary Quest,” in Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1992, p. E7. Lopez, Ruth, “Five Questions” (interview with Cristina Garcia), ...
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

Daniel Hunter

The young immigrants provided advice, like telling them not to sign voluntary deportation papers. But most importantly, they made public people's stories, like that of Javier de los Santos. Javier was being ripped from his infant son because he ...
Thus Bad Begins

Thus Bad Begins

Javier Marías

Award-winning author Javier Marías examines a household living in unhappy the shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest ...

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