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The Generation of '27 Anthology-in Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 39652
© 2009
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-069-1
Following World War I, Spain underwent an intense flowering of art, literature, and culture-personified by a group of avant-garde poets known as the Generation of '27. This program profiles key member...
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Kimono: Symbol of a Nation
Item# 39633
© 2008
48 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60467-520-7
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60467-521-4
Elegant, flowing, and steeped in mythology, the kimono has survived for fifteen hundred years as a symbol of Japanese tradition and a mirror of Japan's evolving culture. From medieval courtesans adorn...
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21st-Century Trends in Latin American Literature-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37463
© 2008
51 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7815-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7816-9
Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the statu...
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After the Boom-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37460
© 2008
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7809-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7810-7
As the 1970s progressed, the political climate in Latin America became increasingly dark, with no end in sight to the proliferation of brutal dictatorships. This program analyzes the cultural impact o...
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The Avant-Garde of the 1920s-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37457
© 2008
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7803-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7804-6
After the horrors of World War I, Latin American writing turned away from what many saw as ornamental and frivolous experimentation. This program studies the so-called "criticism of Modernismo within...
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Brazilian Literature: The 20th Century-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37462
© 2008
54 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7813-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7814-5
In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao...
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Brazilian Literature: The First 500 Years-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37461
© 2008
49 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7811-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7812-1
Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European emigres, and Africans brought to the New World...
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Conquest and Colony-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37452
© 2008
47 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7793-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7794-0
To the European imagination, America was a tabula rasa, a virgin territory. As this program describes, narrative art forms were essential to making sense of this exotic Eden and the possibilities it o...
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Fire & Ink: The Legacy of Latin American Literature-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37450
© 2008
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7789-6
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7790-2
Myth, magical realism, hard-edged realism, fantasy-the literature of Latin America encompasses all these forms, and more. This 13-part series guides viewers chronologically and thematically through th...
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From Romanticism to Realism-Spanish with Optional English Subtitles
Item# 37454
© 2008
52 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-4213-7797-1
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-4213-7798-8
The 19th century brought tumultuous political change to Central and South America. This program shows how the cultural crucible of the region fused and realigned aesthetic movements considered sacrosa...
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