Panorámicas urbanas

Este libro explora nuestra historia cinematográfica a partir del archivo fílmico, la documentación, la crítica y las miradas subjetivas, que nos permiten establecer una historiografía del cine chileno y latinoamericano.

Did you know that two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Hemingway and Faulkner) worked on the story of To Have and Have Not (1944)? Did you know that the origin of the term "paparazzi" comes from Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) which has a character called Paparazzo who photographs celebrities? Did you know that David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the longest film which has no woman speaking part? Did you know that in the first Academy Award competition in 1929, Rin Tin Tin polled more votes than anyone else for the Best Actor, but his name was removed from the list of...

The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture. In this book is both a city being reshaped by our times as well as a timeless city with 500-year-old customs and festivals. Von Rothkirk sees the contrasts that show up at street level but even the...

La temporada taurina de 1908/1909 —que corrió del 4 de octubre de 1908 al 21 de marzo de 1909— despertó gran interés entre los aficionados al espectáculo, que deseaban confirmar en el ruedo lo que habían leído en la prensa acerca de Rodolfo Gaona, la nueva sensación que regresó de España. Acrecentó el interés de los taurófilos la competencia que surgió entre las plazas de toros “México” y “El Toreo”, que marcó la historia taurina de la capital de la república desde el 22 de septiembre de 1907 cuando esta última se inauguró. La rivalidad entre ambas plazas se...