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Excess spaces: Movement and ethnoscapes in Brian De Palma’s Scarface and Edward James Olmos’ American Me (2016)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2016). Excess spaces: Movement and ethnoscapes in Brian De Palma’s Scarface and Edward James Olmos’ American Me. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623384

This article explores notions of movement and spatiality in two US films about ‘Latino’ gangsters, Brian De Palma’s Scarface (1983) and Edward James Olmos’ American Me (1992). In examining the distinction between gangster films and specifically Latin... Read More about Excess spaces: Movement and ethnoscapes in Brian De Palma’s Scarface and Edward James Olmos’ American Me.

Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin. (2014)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2014). Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin. Third Text, 28 (4-5), 377-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2014.939505

This article analyses a set of photographic works on island and littoral locations by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Focusing initially on one of Tillmans' signature images, Untitled (La Gomera), 1997, the article draws attention to this piec... Read More about Wolfgang Tillmans' Still Islands: Photographic Aesthetics off the Margin..

Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies. (2014)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2014). Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies. Journal of Romance Studies, 14(2), 62-77. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.14.2.62

In Douglas Sirk's last UFA studios film, La Habanera (1937), the island of Tenerife poses as Puerto Rico, Caribbean culture translates as vague Hispanic pastiche, and Nazi propaganda speaks through Zarah Leander's trance performances in the course of... Read More about Liquid visuality: Douglas Sirk's La Habanera and insular Atlantic studies..

Paris, Cuba, New York: Wifredo Lam and the Lost Origins of The Jungle. (2009)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2009). Paris, Cuba, New York: Wifredo Lam and the Lost Origins of The Jungle. Cultural Dynamics, 21(3), 339-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374008350292

This article investigates the complex inscription of modernist Cuban imaginaries within Atlantic cultural and political networks. I consider the tropes of cultural intelligibility and epistemic opacity in the fields of visual culture and cultural hie... Read More about Paris, Cuba, New York: Wifredo Lam and the Lost Origins of The Jungle..

Géneros y vanguardias insulares: Canarias y Cuba en el límite de dos repúblicas. (2007)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2007). Géneros y vanguardias insulares: Canarias y Cuba en el límite de dos repúblicas. Hispanic Research Journal, 8(2), 141-154. https://doi.org/10.1179/174582007x172060

Este trabajo analiza críticamente diversas representaciones literarias y visuales de los espacios insulares en relación con las construcciones de género en Cuba y las Islas Canarias en los años veinte y treinta. El ensayo parte de la coincidencia his... Read More about Géneros y vanguardias insulares: Canarias y Cuba en el límite de dos repúblicas..

Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value (2006)
Journal Article
Hernández Adrián, F. (2006). Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value. Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature, 30(1), 20-43. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1613

This essay addresses the emerging field of Atlantic Studies and questions the status of "the Atlantic" as an object of study. Rather than assuming a self-evident grid where Atlantic cultural phenomena oscillate between such poles as "centers and peri... Read More about Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value.