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BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITION This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly preserved, these fascinating relics depict life on the Argentine prairie with documentary candor as well as romantic aplomb. Here we find many photographs of the gauchos with their horses, at their ranches, playing their guitars and courting their wives. Cows are quartered, houses are raised, rivers forged and duels...

La lectura de este libro nos remite directamente a la problemática de la estética de nuestro tiempo y abre a nuestra consideración vastas regiones artísticas que la tradición clásica había ocluido o malinterpretado.

Este libro ofrece al lector el primer estudio completo y profundo sobre este genero, desde los seriales del cine mudo a las recientes peliculas de arma blanca (stalkers), desde Alfred Hitchcock a Quentin Tarantino, desde The Great Train Robbery a L. A. Confidential. Martin Rubin muestra de que manera este genero visceral y cargado de emociones ha utilizado el suspense, la velocidad y las sensaciones fuertes para mantenernos clavados en nuestras butacas durante todo un siglo de cine estadounidense. El thriller es quiza el genero cinematografico mas popular, pero tambien el mas dificil de...