Download PDF version In Cuba they craved for independence while in Spain they said “¡EL DESASTRE!” It was more of a disaster than they thought in the Caribbean as the Spanish-American War opened the path to a new stage of...
Download PDF version It has been reported that after the worldwide success of Netflix’s miniseries The Queen’s Gambit, created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott in 2020 and based on a homonymous novel written by Walter Stone Tevis, there has...
Download PDF version Musical films are a favourite among viewers since their emergence in 1927 (Chilton 2020) tied to the arrival of the “talkies” and the consequent possibility of including sound within what were, until then, silent films. Their popularity...
Download PDF version Today, 88 years ago, the celebrated poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born. Considering Sylvia Plath always implies dealing with the myth, the character, and the voice of her poems. What can we learn about her life...
On June 18th, 208 years ago, the War of 1812 was declared. Why was this war important? you might ask. Last night, as I was watching Chapter 4 (Season 1) of the Amazon Prime Series The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, one...
Download PDF version Cuando en 2017 estrenaron la película Tres Anuncios a las Afueras (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, dirigida por Martin McDonagh, 2017) hubo varios asuntos que alentaron mi interés y curiosidad por ella: los rumores de Oscar, la...
Download PDF version As I already claimed in my latest post in this blog regarding “race,” these are times of relativism by which any strategically essentialist claim dignifying an oppressed group is deemed discriminatory by a supposedly neutral alt-right (Fernández...
Download PDF version “Why do you blame everyone else for your problems?” he said. […] “You attack the police?” Eddy said. “You need a cause so you make one up?” “Attack the police? Ha,” Kalli, said […] “What, you think...
