Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Contracorriente (2009), has garnered both critical interest and success, winning rave reviews from respected international print and web outlets and coveted…
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I SANG to women gathered round; Forth from my own heart-springs Welled out the passion; of the pain I sang if the beloved in vain…
Comments closedAccording to Richard Rodriguez, we owe the invention of the Hispanic to Richard Nixon, whose administration introduced this category in 1973 in the classification system…
Comments closedDirector Leopoldo Torre Nilsson enjoyed an intimate connection with Argentine cinema from a very early age: his father, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, and his uncle, Carlos…
Comments closedThe recent rise in the study of affect and emotions within different paradigms of cultural studies opens many questions relevant to the study of Mexican…
Comments closedIn a scene that combines eroticism, humor and a flying dolphin lamp, Jennifer Crusie’s hero and heroine in Welcome to Temptation struggle to find passion…
Comments closedJennifer Crusie identifies herself as a feminist author who attempts to communicate the ideals of gender equality via her narratives. As she has explained, she…
Comments closedAs Crusie’s romantic leads evolve from chasing the con (Trust Me on This), to abandoning the con (Welcome to Temptation), to embracing the con (Faking…
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