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Product Description: With the success of novels such as The Shadow of the Wind and films such as The Others, contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to the imagery and experience of the Gothic, although contributions of this sort are not always recognised as being specifically Spanish in origin...read more
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9781474402996 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: With the success of novels such as The Shadow of the Wind and films such as The Others, contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to the imagery and experience of the Gothic, although contributions of this sort are not always recognised as being specifically Spanish in origin.
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9781137407832 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 2, 2014, cover price $100.00
Product Description: Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penélope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today. Focusing on Cruz's key films and their surrounding discourse, Ann Davies explores how she is called upon to embody different ideas of youthfulness, nationality, exotic otherness, and the mature, established actress...read more
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9781844574285 | British Film Inst, June 5, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Part of a vanguard of Spanish talent claiming success at home and in Hollywood, Penélope Cruz is one of the best known European stars today.
Product Description: Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies...read more
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9781846318221 | Liverpool Univ Pr, September 15, 2012, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture.
Product Description: This volume provides a collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship. The essays reveal the far-reaching shifts that have occurred in the Spanish film scene, making essential reading for all interested in European cinema...read more
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9780230236202 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2011, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This volume provides a collection of original essays from leading scholars in the field exploring the contemporary debates, concerns and controversies ongoing in Spanish film industry, culture and scholarship.
Product Description: Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics. Reductively dismissed as a purveyor of crude violence by those critics lamenting a "lost golden age" of Spanish filmmaking, Calparsoroâs films reveal in fact a more complex interaction with trends and traditions in both Spanish and Hollywood cinema...read more
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9780719073649 | Manchester Univ Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Daniel Calparsoro, a director who has provided a crucial contribution to the contemporary scene in Spanish and Basque cinema, has provoked strong reactions from the critics.
Product Description: This book of poems has been written from the heart, as a healing tool for everyone to use and enjoy. It is simple to read, and understand, with beautiful illustrations to support the powerful messages. Releasing emotional memories from every cell of your body, is one of the many benefits of reading and re-reading this book...read more
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9780755204083 | Authors Online Ltd, April 30, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This book of poems has been written from the heart, as a healing tool for everyone to use and enjoy.
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9780729304528 | Bilingual edition (Grant & Cutler, December 31, 2007), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Critical guide and study of the work of renowned Spanish film director, Almodovar.
Product Description: The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema. The films are often a combination of Mériméeâs 1845 novella and the opera Bizet fashioned from the novella thirty years later...read more
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9780253219077 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema.
Product Description: The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema. The films are often a combination of Mériméeâs 1845 novella and the opera Bizet fashioned from the novella thirty years later...read more
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9780253348883 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the history of cinema.
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9781855661295 | Bilingual edition (Tamesis Books Ltd, March 23, 2006), cover price $80.00
Product Description: While many scholars have approached Don Juan in terms of myth, this study argues for the understanding of Don Juan as a discourse of gender relations, changing over time. Using examples from the plays by Tirso de Molina, Moliere, Mozart, Zorrila, Shaw and Frisch, it argues that Don Juan's entire identity as a male individual is constructed around women, but that over time - reflecting a growing sense of crisis in the male individual - the women appear more and more pathological in their desire for Don Juan...read more
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9780773463431 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: While many scholars have approached Don Juan in terms of myth, this study argues for the understanding of Don Juan as a discourse of gender relations, changing over time.
Product Description: A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt into four sectionsâstars, class and race, fathers and bodiesâareas covered include the Carmen films, Yiddish cinema, romantic comedy and beur cinema...read more
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9781904764090 | Wallflower Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $80.00
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9781904764083 | Wallflower Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity.
Product Description: Discarded clothes, sewing remnants, even old blankets--recycling materials you have available or find at sales is part of the fun of rag rug-making. The other enjoyable part is the techniques--from hooking to prodding to braiding strips...read more
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9781853688607 | New Holland Pub Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Discarded clothes, sewing remnants, even old blankets--recycling materials you have available or find at sales is part of the fun of rag rug-making.
Product Description: Rag rugs have been a feature of homes in the UK and the USA since the middle of the 19th century. Warm and hard-wearing, they can be made from recycled clothes, blankets, or any other textiles that may be lying around. Designs and colours vary from subtle natural patterns to bold, bright rugs, showing the versatility of the craft...read more
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9781861262295 | Spiral edition (Crowood Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Rag rugs have been a feature of homes in the UK and the USA since the middle of the 19th century.
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9780806913384 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Suitable for beginners and experienced rug makers alike, a collection of 25 easy-to-follow rug designs (with charts).
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9780806913391 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Suitable for beginners and experienced rug makers alike, a collection of 25 easy-to-follow rug designs (with charts).
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9780855328078 | Search Pr Ltd, October 1, 1996, cover price $12.95
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9780805028126 | Owlet, January 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Discusses the history of rag rugs, introduces the equipment and techniques, and provides detailed instructions for making twelve projects, from throw rugs to jewelry
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9780871875853 | Cq Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Book by
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9780871875433 | Cq Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $89.95
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