Julie Taymor’s Oscar-winning Frida is visually stunning but depicts the celebrated Mexican artist as a political invalid
Categories: Mexico, North America
Category: Mexico
Navel gazing with a purpose
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Claudio Lomnitz joins a long tradition of anthropological reflection on the nature of the Mexican national idea in Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico
Categories: Mexico, North America
Blood betrayal
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Las hijas de Juan breaks the silence about incest and the abuse of women in a Mexican-American immigrant household
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The last taboo
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Another Face of Empire challenges myths about Bartolomé de Las Casas in a revisionist assessment that unmasks the imperial gift-giver
Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama
Holy mole!
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The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky is not just a film but an ectopic experience in 1970s mind bending
Categories: Chile, Mexico, North America, South America
Uncivil democracy
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Mexico in Transition surveys the damage caused to the social fabric by neoliberal policies and how civil society is fighting back
Categories: Mexico, North America
Remember the Alamo
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The Alamo 1836 describes how Santa Anna’s excesses following his triumph at the Alamo helped turn the tide against him
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States