Nunca mientas a un idiota

Milena Pato is ten years old and would be perfect if she didn't have this tendency to do things she shouldn't and keep getting into trouble. Since her grandmother told her one day that she would be a writer when she grew up, Milena has started "tracking down" stories, with the help of her two best friends, Frida and Sarai, and her cousin Teo. On their first adventure they lend a hand to Diana and Nadia, a pair of eccentric and verrrry scatter-brained twins

Published as the catalog of the exhibition that began at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—and later moved to the Dallas Museum of Art and New York City's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art—this book documents the manifestations of royal authority between the ancient Mayas and their descendants. Publicado como el catálogo de la exposición inaugurada en el Los Angeles County Museum of Art y trasladada más tarde al Dallas Museum of Art y al Metropolitan Museum of Art en Nueva York, este libro abre nuevos caminos al documentar las manifestaciones de autoridad real entre los antiguos...

This volume presents varied approaches concerning the relation between cinema and politics which focus on policies, eras, countries, mainstream and art cinema productions, transnational examples, changing narratives and identities. Both cinema and politics have actors and directors for their scenes, and in this sense their discourses intermingle. The performances of the “actors/actresses” in both arenas attract particular attention. The actors, directors, and producers with ‘hyphenated/creolised/hybrid identities’ such as German-Turks, directors of Balkan cinema, or Italian filmmakers ...

Pese al importante papel que desempeñó en el contexto internacional durante el siglo pasado, al cine latinoamericano le sigue costando encontrar su lugar en el mundo, asfixiado por una hegemonía global de la industria anglosajona que se impone tanto comercialmente como en el circuito de festivales, y que apenas deja unas migajas para los países en vías de desarrollo. Y, sin embargo, los cineastas de la zona no cejan en su empeño de dar a conocer sus historias. El presente volumen destaca la relevancia de medio centenar de películas realizadas en el escaso periodo de tiempo transcurrido ...