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As well as offering an in-depth analysis of Brazilian film culture, this book engages with well-known international films and directors and sheds light on cinematic traditions that are less familiar to the non-specialist.

When discussing the Tlatelolco 1968 massacre, neither official sources nor the 'voice of the people' necessarily aim to tell the 'truth'. They rather stir up feelings of anger, sadness or shame, and this book demonstrates the extent to which the triggering of such emotions affects what those reading different accounts will believe.

Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil provides new readings and fresh perspectives on the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), whose socially and politically engaged work remains a key reference for our understanding of the making of modern Brazil and continues to reverberate in the country's contemporary context.

This book is an anthology of over a hundred of the finest sonnets of the Spanish Golden Age, each accompanied by an accurate and lively translation into an English sonnet and by a detailed critical commentary.

Presents a full-length study (in English) of the work of the Argentine poet and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92). This book analyses and contextualizes his work whilst offering tools for reading and understanding the challenging and experimental poetry.

Focuses on women's crime writing from Spain and offers an approach to Spanish crime fiction, combining literary criticism with sociological and criminological theory. This multidisciplinary study analyses how female authors use crime and detective genres to analyse the role and position of their countrywomen.

Examines the cultural policy of the Catalan Autonomous Government under the leadership of Jordi Pujol and his party, Convergencia i Unio, which were in power from the post-Franco transitional period of 1980 to Pujol's retirement in 2003.

Analyses the 'waste versus profit' concept (as propounded by the British author Samuel Smiles and which found many supporters in mid-nineteenth century Spain) in the four novels of the "Torquemada" series, by Benito Perez Galdos.

Who was Xespir? Why are Catalan adaptations and performances of Shakespeare causing such a stir internationally? This work tells the history of Shakespeare's translation and reception in Catalonia, showing his importance for Catalan cultural regeneration since the 19th-century and his contribution to the vibrancy of contemporary Catalan culture.

An English-language study of a group of five artists closely linked with the Spanish avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s, known as the 'Other' Generation of 27. It demonstrates how these humorists drew on the humour of Chaplin, Keaton, Lubitsch and the Marx Brothers for their stage comedy.

Focuses on the subject of 'melancholy madness' in Spain. This work demonstrates that the subject of melancholy in the Spanish Golden Age is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity.

Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award. This book covers both his acclaimed historically-based fictions and his, allegorical works, demonstrating the continuity of thought and image between these two phases of the writer's career.