Spanish Lessons

Spanish LessonsThough unjustly neglected by English language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of transmedia works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political

and the news media have politicized parenthood and the family over not just one election year

Global predicaments like climate change and persistent wealth inequalities compel recognition that we are in the midst of an era-defining shift from the primacy of the technical to that of the ethical

often the manner of presentation is abstract

"Relentlessly entertaining" —Michelle Green

it becomes clear that the United States is preparing to enter the Great War

and rulers have perceived both themselves and the world around them through the prism of dreams and visions

When superstition plagues a small village

Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate critical citizenship and democratic life

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Cultural Democracy argues for a "radical democracy" capable of subverting traditional divisions of "left" and "right"

-from "Hurricane Hymn

In addition to the study of these nonfiction texts