Arjan van Dijk the Acquisitions Editor, BRILL wrote to me in response to my 28th February post: Dear Dr Thornton, I just came across your blog from 28 February at www.niamhthornton.net. While I realise that scholars benefit from free access to primary sources, someone needs to pay the bill for organising and managing a project…
Category: Mexican film
The Mexican Revolution and The Wild Bunch
I’m shortly about to publish a chapter on this film and its representation of the Mexican border region. I came across this interesting post today and thought I’d share: An American Take on Mythic Mexico and its Revolution.
Choices, Choices…
I have to choose from one of the following 6 for the cover of my book:
Private archives/Public Good: Classic Mexican film online
I love the connectedness of semantic web. I first came across this project to make classic Mexican cinema available online when Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) tweeted about it and sent on this link for a free trial which ends today (28th February 2012): http://univstandrewse-resources.blogspot.com/2012/01/trial-e-resource-classic-mexican-cinema.html. I retweeted it to spread the word, then some Facebook friends posted about it. Last week I received notification of…