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Power, Gender, Social Class in Latin America

  At the recent 2014 LASA congress, a book which attracted much interest was Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision by Currie Thompson. The book, which was published just in time for the LASA congress, is the inaugural title of the groundbreaking Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures series headed by Román de la Campa (Edwin...

RMMLA 2013 Annual Convention — A Great Success!

With much gratitude to the RMMLA committee, in particular Joy Landeira and Christopher Lupke, Cambria Press had a very productive and enjoyable time at the RMMLA 2013 annual convention. Cambria Press director Toni Tan was heartened to meet many scholars daring enough to push the envelope when it comes to scholarship, given how Toni Tan‘s speech was one in which she strongly...

Cambria Press NEW SERIES! Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures by Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania)

Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series, which will be headed by Dr. Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. The Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures book series will feature high-quality, innovative monographs and edited volumes that constitute path-breaking research in Latin American...

Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being held for Gao Xingjian: 1)    ...

New Book Launched at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting!

Cambria Press author Professor Amadou Fofana’s book, The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, was published JUST IN TIME for the  2012  African Studies Association annual meeting!  ASA attendees kept asking for the book and were pleased to be able to browse it. Nobody, of course, was more pleased than Professor Fofana himself who saw his book for...

Cambria Press Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series New Book! The Films of Ousmane Sembène – Published Just in Time for the 2012 African Studies Annual Meeting!

Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times considered one of the greatest authors of Africa. Often called the “father of African film,” Sembène strongly believed that African films should be geared primarily toward educating the masses and making the philosophical quandaries and political issues contested by elites accessible to the poor and...

The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana – Discussion Questions

The following are discussion questions that the author, Professor Amadou Fofana, helpfully compiled for those who would like to use his book,  The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Politics, and Culture, for course adoption. (There are no discussion questions for chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter.) Chapter 2: Contextualizing Ousmane Sembène 1) How did the specific time period of Sembène’s...

Cambria Press Book Review: The Sex Goddess in American Film — A Model for Other Books!

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Jessica Hope Jordan on the laudatory review of her book, The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930–1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield, by the Journal of Popular Culture. The book review commends the book because it “makes unique contributions to popular film studies.” It further adds that while “too many books on...

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