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Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an
extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national
practices of production and reception and international theories of
textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary
quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced
cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative.
As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once
reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen.
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 7th edition continues its
lengthy, successful tradition of being one of McGraw-Hill's oldest
texts in the Chemical Engineering Series. Since 1956, this text has
been the most comprehensive of the introductory, undergraduate,
chemical engineering titles available. Separate chapters are
devoted to each of the principle unit operations, grouped into four
sections: fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer and
equilibrium stages, and operations involving particulate solids.
Now in its seventh edition, the text still contains its balanced
treatment of theory and engineering practice, with many practical,
illustrative examples included. Almost 30% of the problems have
been revised or are new, some of which cover modern topics such as
food processing and biotechnology. Other unique topics of this text
include diafiltration, adsorption and membrane operations.
The amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey
of legendary British explorer Ewart "The Leopard" Grogan, the first
man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of also winning the
heart of the woman he loved.
In 1898, the dashing young British explorer Ewart "the Leopard"
Grogan was in love. In order to prove his mettle to his
beloved--and her aristocratic stepfather--he set out on a quest to
become the first person to walk across Africa, "a feat hitherto
thought by many explorers to be impossible" (New York Times,
1900).
In 2007, thirty-five-year-old American journalist Julian Smith
faced a similar problem with his girlfriend of six years . . . and
decided to address it in the same way Grogan had more than a
hundred years before: he was going to retrace the Leopard's
4,500-mile journey for love and glory through the lakes, volcanoes,
savannas, and crowded modern cities of Africa.
Smith interweaves both adventures into a seamless narrative in
Crossing the Heart of Africa the story of two explorers, a century
apart, who both traversed the length of Africa to prove themselves
. . . and came back changed men.
This book focuses on some of the best known and most important
books, feature films, and television series in contemporary Span,
and addresses three pairs of linked issues central to Hispanic
studies and beyond: history and memory, authority and society, and
genre and transitivity.
Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an
extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national
practices of production and reception and international theories of
textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary
quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced
cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative.
As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once
reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen.
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie
directed by Alfonso Cuaron and co-written by him and his brother
Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on
to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native
Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time.
Its teenage protagonists Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna went on
to be major stars of global cinema. Yet on its release the film was
vilified by established Mexican critics as a coarse comedy and
'Penthouse fantasy' of youthful lust for an older woman. Paul
Julian Smith's lucid study of the film argues that Y Tu Mama
Tambien not only addresses with playful seriousness such major
issues as gender, race, class, and space, which are yet more urgent
now than they were on its release; but that the film's apparently
casual aesthetic masks a sophisticated audiovisual style, one which
brings together popular genre film and auteurist experiment. Smith
suggests Y Tu Mama Tambien remains an example for world cinema of
how a very local film can connect with a global audience that is
ignorant of such niceties. Combining production and distribution
history, based on unexplored material held in Mexico City archives,
with close textual analysis, Smith makes an argument for Cuaron's
film as an enduring masterpiece that hides in plain sight as an
ephemeral teen movie.
This pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and
television in Spain only make sense when considered together as
twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is
now one of the most successful in the world, with feature films
achieving wider distribution in foreign markets than nations with
better known cinematic traditions and newly innovative TV formats,
already dominant at home, now widely exported. Beyond the
industrial context, which has seen close convergence of the two
media, this book also examines the textual evidence for crossover
between cinema and television at the level of narrative and form.
The book, which is of interest to both Hispanic and media studies,
gives new readings of some well-known texts and discovers new or
forgotten ones. For example it compares Almodovar's classic feature
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios ('Women on the Verge of a
Nervous Breakdown') with his production company El Deseo's first
venture into TV production, the 2006 series also known as Mujeres
('Women'). It also reclaims the lost history of female flat share
comedy on Spanish TV from the 1960s to the present day. It examines
a wide range of prize winning workplace drama on TV, from police
shows, to hospital and legal series. Amenabar's Mar adentro ('The
Sea Inside') an Oscar-winning film on the theme of euthanasia, is
contrasted with its antecedent, an episode of national network
Tele5's top-rated drama Periodistas. The book also traces the
attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the
very different context of Spanish scheduling. Finally it proposes
two new terms: 'Auteur TV' charts the careers of creators who have
established distinctive profiles in television over decades;
'sitcom cinema' charts, conversely, the incursion of television
aesthetics and economics into the film comedies that have proved
amongst the most popular features at the Spanish box office in the
last decade.
The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his
major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies,
psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It
provides fascinating historical accounts of productions in
different times and places, from New York in the 1930s to Madrid in
the 1980s. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as
Gregorio Maranon, Langston Hughes, Andre Gide, and Lluis Pasqual,
enabling us to see his theatre in a new light. In addition, the
book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which
returns to Freud's early clinical texts. Examining the complex and
productive intersection of history and fantasy that is
characteristic both of Garcia Lorca's theatre and of the cult to
which it has given rise, this study offers a thorough reassessment
of Lorca's work.
Practical Pharmaceutics contains essential knowledge on the
preparation, quality control, logistics, dispensing and use of
medicines. It features chapters written by experienced pharmacists
and scientists working in hospitals, academia and industry
throughout Europe, including practical examples as well as
information on current GMP and GMP-based guidelines and
EU-legislation. In this second edition all chapters have been
updated with numerous new as well as didactically revised
illustrations and tables. A completely new chapter about
therapeutic proteins and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products was
added. From prescription to production, from usage instructions to
procurement and the impact of medicines on the environment, the
book provides step-by-step coverage that will help a wide range of
readers, students as well as professionals. It offers product
knowledge for all pharmacists working directly with patients and it
will enable them to make the required medicine available, to store
medicines properly, to adapt medicines if necessary and to dispense
medicines with the appropriate information for patients as well as
caregivers about product care and how to maintain the quality of
the product. The basic knowledge presented in the book will also be
valuable for industrial pharmacists to remind and focus them on the
application of the medicines manufactured. The basic and practical
knowledge on the design, preparation and quality management of
medicines can directly be applied by the pharmacists whose main
duty is production in community and hospital pharmacies and in
industry. Undergraduate as well as graduate pharmacy students will
find knowledge presented in a coherent way and fully supported with
relevant examples. Practical Pharmaceutics has become a reliable
and recognised source for the acquisition of
pharmaceutical-technological knowledge. The book is used in the
curriculum of a number of international universities and schools of
Pharmacy.
The Theatre of García Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It also juxtaposes Lorca with major figures such as Gregorio Marañón, Langston Hughes, André Gide, and Lluis Pasqual, enabling us to see his theater in a new light. In addition, the book presents a new psychoanalytic reading of the plays, which returns to Freud's early clinical texts.
The triumphant true story of the native Hawaiian cowboys who
crossed the Pacific to shock America at the 1908 world rodeo
championships Oregon Book Award winner * An NPR Best Book of the
Year * Pacific Northwest Book Award finalist * A Reading the West
Book Awards finalist "Groundbreaking. ... A must-read. ... An
essential addition." -True West In August 1908, three unknown
riders arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, their hats adorned with
wildflowers, to compete in the world's greatest rodeo. Steer-roping
virtuoso Ikua Purdy and his cousins Jack Low and Archie Ka'au'a had
travelled 4,200 miles from Hawaii, of all places, to test
themselves against the toughest riders in the West. Dismissed by
whites, who considered themselves the only true cowboys, the native
Hawaiians would astonish the country, returning home champions-and
American legends. An unforgettable human drama set against the
rough-knuckled frontier, David Wolman and Julian Smith's Aloha
Rodeo unspools the fascinating and little-known true story of the
Hawaiian cowboys, or paniolo, whose 1908 adventure upended the
conventional history of the American West. What few understood when
the three paniolo rode into Cheyenne is that the Hawaiians were no
underdogs. They were the product of a deeply engrained cattle
culture that was twice as old as that of the Great Plains, for
Hawaiians had been chasing cattle over the islands' rugged volcanic
slopes and through thick tropical forests since the late 1700s.
Tracing the life story of Purdy and his cousins, Wolman and Smith
delve into the dual histories of ranching and cowboys in the
islands, and the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Cheyenne, "Holy
City of the Cow." At the turn of the twentieth century,
larger-than-life personalities like "Buffalo Bill" Cody and
Theodore Roosevelt capitalized on a national obsession with the
Wild West and helped transform Cheyenne's annual Frontier Days
celebration into an unparalleled rodeo spectacle, the "Daddy of 'em
All." The hopes of all Hawaii rode on the three riders' shoulders
during those dusty days in August 1908. The U.S. had forcibly
annexed the islands just a decade earlier. The young Hawaiians
brought the pride of a people struggling to preserve their cultural
identity and anxious about their future under the rule of overlords
an ocean away. In Cheyenne, they didn't just astound the locals;
they also overturned simplistic thinking about cattle country, the
binary narrative of "cowboys versus Indians," and the very concept
of the Wild West. Blending sport and history, while exploring
questions of identity, imperialism, and race, Aloha Rodeo
spotlights an overlooked and riveting chapter in the saga of the
American West.
Gender representation in Mexico's contemporary audio-visual
landscape This book focusses on gender and the audio-visual
landscape of Mexico since 2010, examining popular culture as
expressed in the still distinct but rapidly converging media forms
of cinema, television, and streaming platforms. It tracks how
changes in producers and genres coincide with changes in gender
representations and engages with depictions of feminism, women's
sexuality, masculinity, and teen homosexuality. It aims to move
beyond the art, auteur or specialist film that is vaunted by film
festivals but little seen by Mexicans at home, focussing instead on
a wider world of media content and practices available in Mexico
itself. Close attention is also paid to the social media footprint
of the productions studied and the way it is used for promotion and
engagement with the target audience. The book proposes a new
approach to audio-visual studies, combining textual analysis with
field surveys and the useof industrial sources perhaps unfamiliar
to scholars in Anglo-American Hispanism and Latin American media
studies in the UK and USA
In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has grown from
critical darling of the
film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often
deadly serious, always
visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy
Award-winning drama "Talk to
Her" to the 2011 horror film "The Skin I Live In." Though they are
ambitious and varied in style,
each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined
his work.
" Desire Unlimited "is the classic film-by-film assessment of
Almodovar's oeuvre,
now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study
of its kind in English,
it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath
Almodovar's genius for
comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to
be taken with the
utmost seriousness.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Multiplatform Media in Mexico is the first book to treat the
exciting, interconnected fields of cinema, television, and internet
in Mexico over the last decade, fields that combine to be called
multiplatform media. Combining industrial analysis of a major
audiovisual field at a time of growth and change with close
readings of significant texts on all screens, acclaimed author Paul
Julian Smith deftly details these new audiovisual trends. The book
includes perspectives on local reporting on the ground, as covered
in the chapter documenting media response to the 2017 earthquake.
And, for the first time in this field, the book draws throughout on
star studies, tracing the distinct profiles of actors who migrate
from one medium to another. As a whole, Smith's analyses illustrate
the key movements in screen media in one of the world's largest
media and cultural producing nations. These perspectives connect to
and enrich scholarship across Latin American, North American, and
global cases.
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