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Mar 29 2014 by B. de Lizaur 4 Comments

ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS: CONTENT POLICIES IN MEXICAN TELENOVELAS, 1957-1997

Paper presented at: Representing Mexico: Transnationalism and the politics of culture in Post-revolutionary Mexico International conference sponsored by Yale University and the Woodrow Wilson Center, at the Smithsonian Institution Tower, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., Friday 7th and Saturday 8th, November, 1997. . ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS..., CONTENT POLICIES IN MEXICAN TELENOVELAS (1957-1997) Blanca de Lizaur, U.N.A.M. . TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction Telenovelas, what they are The birth of Mexican telenovelas The myth of progress Literature's social function Who decides what can be shown Contents' agenda A short history of religious elements in Mexican telenovelas Religiou...

Aug 22 2011 by Blanca de Lizaur, PhD, MA, BA 1 Comment

Everything YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR VOICE…, but couldn’t find whom to ask!

For everybody, Magazine, Editor's choice

Dedicated to Claudio Lenk (r.i.p.), Roxana Coll, Ignacio Cobeta, Víctor Osma, and Concha Doñaque. - I - Our voices have an almost magical power to attract or repel other people. And in many indigenous cultures –oral and rural ones, a person's voice is that person –it reflects their soul, their essence, their self. “There is no index of character so sure as the voice” (Benjamín Disraeli). For those of us who use our voices in our professional lives (teachers, actors, singers, salespeople, therapists, speakers, politicians, street vendors, receptionists, and many more), our voices are everything. We must educate them, mold them, and train them, lest –if we do not– we irreversibly damage or even lose them (nodules, polyps, edema, aphonia, dysphonia, etc.). Yet..., it is very difficult to f...

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