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Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...

La señorita de Trévelez es la obra maestra de Carlos Arniches. Estrenada en Madrid en 1.916, es una comedia romántica con tintes de melodrama. Se desarrolla en una capital de provincias, y narra, con un estilo inconfundible, el desamor de Florita Trévelez, soltera de cierta edad, cursi y poco agraciada físicamente, víctima de una broma de mal gusto. Maquinan y ponen en marcha dicha broma los miembros del autodenominado Guasa-Club, un grupo de amigos asiduos al casino, haciendo creer que uno de los protagonistas, Numeriano Galán, está perdidamente enamorado de ella. Carlos Arniches...

INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY. HOW DO THE OBJECTS IN A STILL LIFE REFLECT THE CUSTOMS, IDEAS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE TIME? THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH NORBERT SCHNEIDER ASKS IN THIS BOOK. THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND THE 17TH CENTURY WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE HEYDAY OF THE STILL LIFE. IT IS AN ART FORM WHICH GIVES US VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS PEOPLE'S NOTIONS OF DEATH. STILL LIFES CHART THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE AS WELL AS THE GRADUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE MEDIAEVAL CONCEPT OF THE...

¿Existe un cine de superhéroes? ¿Son la infantil o incluso fascista representación de fantasías dañinas, o un mito moderno que hay que saber leer? En las nueve décadas que el superhéroe ha existido en nuestra cultura, su figura y sus aventuras han servido a muchos fines, desde el puro entretenimiento y evasión al más descarnado retrato de nuestras limitaciones y mezquindades. Y eso ha sido así en el papel, en la radio, en la televisión y en el celuloide. En este libro recorremos la historia del superhéroe y el supervillano en el cine proponiendo 50 títulos que...