Latin American icons : fame across borders / edited by Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor.
Latin American icons : fame across borders / edited by Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor.
Latin American icons : fame across borders / edited by Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor.
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Publisher
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Call Numbers
GQ 2015/519
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Language
English
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Physical content
vii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Reflections on Iconicity, Celebrity and Cultural Crossings / Patrick O'Connor and Dianna C. Niebylski -- 1. Pancho Villa: Icon of Insurgency / Brian Gollnick -- 2. Eva Peron: Excerpts from The Passion and the Exception / Beatriz Sarlo -- 3. From Korda's Guerrillero Heroico to Global Br...
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Publisher
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
Tennessee
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
"The faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or define a post-national condition. They become stereotypes...
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Latin American icons : fame across borders / edited by Dianna C. Niebylski, Patrick O'Connor.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
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GQ 2015/519
Record Identifier
74VKO5mEGWjO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO5mEGWjO
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ISBN
082651930X (paperback)
9780826519290 (cloth)
0826519296 (cloth)
9780826519306 (paperback)
DDC
305.5/209228
MMS ID
991022670739702626
