Anna Torres-Cacoullos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5948231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Torres-Cacoullos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres-Cacoullos |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES-CACOULLOS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9448-4218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture
As a sociologically-oriented study, this project contributes to an archaeology of cinema fandom broadly, and early Spanish fan culture specifically, by spotlighting male readers of popular film magazines. Taking as an exploratory case study reader interactivity with the magazine _Popular Film_, analysis of correspondence and published photos of readers participating in reader contests demonstrates that the magazine’s cinema fan base was composed …
When Fiction is Stranger Than Truth
When Fiction is Stranger Than Truth:Metaliterary Preoccupation and Philosophical Burlesque in Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (1936) Anna Torres-Cacoullos In short, my characters have taken seriously the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction' and I have failed in my attempts to convince them of the contrary. xi, Prologue, Locos Mark Twain's elucidation of the adage "truth is stranger than fiction," namely that "Fiction is obliged to stick to po…
Alexandra Ksenofontova, The Modernist Screenplay
On Being (Social), Selfhood and the Creative Experience in the Digital Age in Clara Janés’ Vilanos (E-mails) (2004)
Clara Janés intertwines contemporary e-communication and Spanish medieval mysticism to envision the texture of social experience, selfhood and creativity in the digital age. Vilanos (E-mails) invokes e-mailing’s mystical dimensions: cyberspace’s effacement of time and space and the cybernetic undoing of the self. Interrogating encounters with electronic ‘otherness’ in the cybernetic void, a digitized form of spiritual pilgrimage emerges, encompas…
Salve, risueña mentira’
In Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Sonata de invierno (1905), a Prelate suggests to the Marqués de Bradomín that he write a book about his life, with the warning, however, that St Augustine and Rousseau are two different models for Bradomín’s life story. This article proposes to read Sonata de invierno as confession, as opposed to memoir or autobiography, where ‘Valleinclanian’ confession in the mode of what I term ‘cosmic hyperbole’—lies, exaggeration …
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Salve, risueña mentira’
In Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s Sonata de invierno (1905), a Prelate suggests to the Marqués de Bradomín that he write a book about his life, with the warning, however, that St Augustine and Rousseau are two different models for Bradomín’s life story. This article proposes to read Sonata de invierno as confession, as opposed to memoir or autobiography, where ‘Valleinclanian’ confession in the mode of what I term ‘cosmic hyperbole’—lies, exaggeration …
Alexandra Ksenofontova, The Modernist Screenplay
On Being (Social), Selfhood and the Creative Experience in the Digital Age in Clara Janés’ Vilanos (E-mails) (2004)
Clara Janés intertwines contemporary e-communication and Spanish medieval mysticism to envision the texture of social experience, selfhood and creativity in the digital age. Vilanos (E-mails) invokes e-mailing’s mystical dimensions: cyberspace’s effacement of time and space and the cybernetic undoing of the self. Interrogating encounters with electronic ‘otherness’ in the cybernetic void, a digitized form of spiritual pilgrimage emerges, encompas…
When Fiction is Stranger Than Truth
When Fiction is Stranger Than Truth:Metaliterary Preoccupation and Philosophical Burlesque in Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (1936) Anna Torres-Cacoullos In short, my characters have taken seriously the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction' and I have failed in my attempts to convince them of the contrary. xi, Prologue, Locos Mark Twain's elucidation of the adage "truth is stranger than fiction," namely that "Fiction is obliged to stick to po…
A Digital Archaeology of Early Hispanic Film Culture
As a sociologically-oriented study, this project contributes to an archaeology of cinema fandom broadly, and early Spanish fan culture specifically, by spotlighting male readers of popular film magazines. Taking as an exploratory case study reader interactivity with the magazine _Popular Film_, analysis of correspondence and published photos of readers participating in reader contests demonstrates that the magazine’s cinema fan base was composed …
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works)