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El cine y la pornografía, Juan Pablos Editor y Voyeur, México, 2011, (Col. Anales del cine en México, 1895-1911. Vol. 7. 1901: Tercera parte), recrea los inicios del cine licencioso y las campañas de censura que los gobiernos, en especial el mexicano, instauraron para limitar las escenas subidas de tono. Bajo los cánones actuales, las imágenes eróticas que nuestros abuelos disfrutaban resultarían de una candorosa ingenuidad. Tuvo la gentileza Juan Felipe Leal de enviarme la tercera edición de su obra. Aunque es la tercera, ésta incluye información fresca respecto al fenómeno...

Mi Cuba is a great gallery of true-life pictures on Cuba and a whole gamut of images spanning from the typical postcard to an ordinary person's day-to-day life. This book unveils the real face of the island through the nostalgic pages and writings of political refugees, along with the scorching visula commentary of photagrapher Stefanono Pacii recounting Cuba's special period. Gordiano Lupi's content describes the manifold aspects of Cuba's culture: music, santeria, literature, habits, superstition, fun and cuisine.

Discusses how the people of Mexico honor their loved ones in death through the celebration of All Souls' Day.

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernado, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible. This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered. The author's course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernado comes across successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller. With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, ...