Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema

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In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby renderin

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Lisa Shaw is Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Liverpool|Rob Stone is Professor of Film and Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University