Latin American Studies~2012 - University of Pittsburgh Press
Latin American Studies~2012 - University of Pittsburgh Press
Latin American Studies~2012 - University of Pittsburgh Press
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Media, Sound, and<br />
Culture in <strong>Latin</strong><br />
America and the<br />
Caribbean<br />
Edited by ALEJANDRA BRONFMAN<br />
AND ANDREW GRANT WOOD<br />
An original analysis <strong>of</strong> the role <strong>of</strong><br />
sound in <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>American</strong> and<br />
Caribbean societies, from the late<br />
nineteenth century to the present.<br />
The contributors examine the<br />
importance <strong>of</strong> sound in the purveyance<br />
<strong>of</strong> power, gender roles,<br />
race, community, religion, and populism.<br />
They also demonstrate how<br />
sound is essential to the formation<br />
<strong>of</strong> citizenship and nationalism.<br />
2012 • 160 pp.<br />
ISBN 978-0-8229-6187-1 • Paper $24.95<br />
ITEM NO. 504 • SALE PRICE $19.96<br />
PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />
Transition Cinema<br />
Political Filmmaking and the<br />
Argentine Left since 1968<br />
JESSICA STITES MOR<br />
Stites Mor documents the critical<br />
role filmmakers, the film industry,<br />
and state regulators played in<br />
Argentina’s volatile transition to<br />
democracy. She shows how, during<br />
different regimes, the state<br />
moved to either inhibit or facilitate<br />
film production and its content,<br />
distribution, and exhibition. She<br />
also reveals the strategies the film<br />
industry employed to comply with,<br />
or circumvent these regulations.<br />
2012 • 304 pp.<br />
978-0-8229-6191-8 • Paper $24.95<br />
ITEM NO. 505 SALE PRICE $19.96<br />
ILLUMINATIONS: CULTURAL<br />
FORMATIONS OF THE AMERICAS<br />
Bound Lives<br />
Africans, Indians, and the<br />
Making <strong>of</strong> Race in Colonial Peru<br />
RACHEL SARAH O’TOOLE<br />
Bound Lives chronicles the lived<br />
experience <strong>of</strong> race relations in<br />
northern coastal Peru during the<br />
colonial era. O’Toole examines<br />
how Andeans and Africans<br />
negotiated and employed casta,<br />
and in doing so, constructed<br />
these racial categories.<br />
2012 • 280 pp.<br />
978-0-8229-6193-2 • Paper $25.95<br />
ITEM NO. 507 SALE PRICE $20.76<br />
PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />
Salt and the<br />
Colombian State<br />
Local Society and Regional<br />
Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900<br />
JOSHUA M. ROSENTHAL<br />
In republican Colombia, salt<br />
became an important source <strong>of</strong><br />
revenue to the state, which levied<br />
taxes on it and in some cases<br />
controlled and pr<strong>of</strong>ited from its<br />
production. Focusing his study on<br />
the city <strong>of</strong> la Salina, Rosenthal<br />
<strong>of</strong>fers a glimpse into the workings<br />
<strong>of</strong> the early Colombian state, its<br />
institutions, and their interactions<br />
with local citizens during this<br />
formative period.<br />
2012 • 240 pp.<br />
978-0-8229-6180-2 • Paper $27.95<br />
ITEM NO. 506 • SALE PRICE $22.36<br />
PITT LATIN AMERICAN SERIES<br />
UNIVERSIT Y OF PIT TSBURGH PRESS • <strong>Latin</strong> <strong>American</strong> Studies 3