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This book fathoms the depths of Philippine cinema as the author ventures into the largely unknown terrain of the country's history of early cinema. With meticulous scholarship and engaging insights, prize-winning filmmaker and author Nick Deocampo investigates the origin and formation of cinema as it became the Filipinos' preeminent entertainment and cultural form.
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439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Solo existen dos civilizaciones en el mundo occidental: la hispanica y la anglosajona. El encuentro de Espana con las gentes y tierras de America fue un acontecimiento que transformo las bases geograficas, revoluciono la alimentacion, indujo cambios demograficos sustanciales, y genero un nuevo espacio cultural que se extiende sobre mas de quinientos millones de personas. Los logros mas conocidos de esta Civilizacion Hispanica son el mestizaje y la...
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xvi, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots -- ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
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xviii, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
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English
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A narrative chronicle of Spain's dominant years traces Latin America's exploration, conquest, and economic development between 1522 and 1556, offering insight into how period accomplishments remain influential in today's world.
12) Octavio Paz
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142 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
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English
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"When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also a great polemicist and essayist, described by V.S....
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