Espiritus Animales

Barcelona inconclusa nace de un blog de viajes en el que durante cinco años el periodista y escritor argentino Laureano Debat piensa y narra una ciudad que no es todavía la suya, para apropiársela a través de la escritura. Adoptando la actitud del cazador de la que habla Martín Caparrós y desde una mirada que oscila entre el odio a la ciudad marca y la fascinación por sus prodigios, todo puede ser detonante y leitmotiv de las crónicas: el arte contemporáneo y la arquitectura urbana, el piso compartido con dos prostitutas, los trabajos precarios, el turismo, el esoterismo, los...

Narra el recorrido, vital y transformador de una de las personalidades más importantes en la historia de México. El "tata" Vasco y su ingente labor humanitaria de ayuda al desarrollo y al progreso de diversas poblaciones mexicanas se nos muestra con unas ilustraciones que reflejan toda la belleza de los paisajes de las rutas de don Vasco de Quiroga.

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...

This volume aims to take the pulse of the changes taking place in the thriving field of Audiovisual Translation and to offer new insights into both theoretical and practical issues. Academics and practitioners of proven international reputation are given voice in three distinctive sections pivoting around the main areas of subtitling and dubbing, media accessibility (subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and audio description), and didactic applications of AVT. Many countries, languages, transfer modes, audiences and genres are considered in order to provide the reader with a wide...