El Espejo Enterrado 5 Video Set Author:Carlos Fuentes This is a 5 VHS set: — I: La virgen y el toro, II: La batalla de los dioses, III: La edad de oro; IV: El precio de la libertad, V. Las tres hispanidades. — SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION — Written and presented by the renowned writer Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror/El espejo enterrado: Reflections on Spain and the New World focuses on the broad panoram... more »a of Hispanic culture and civilization in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Chosen by the Smithsonian Institute as its quincentennial project for television, this beautifully written, directed, and filmed series has appeared on PBS.
The Buried Mirror/El espejo enterrado, based on an original idea by historian Peggy K. Liss, is the best series on Hispanic culture and civilization to date.
These programs are of special interest to high school and college teachers of Spanish, Latin American studies, Latin American history, and Latin American literature. This series is useful in the classroom because, although vast in scope, it is carefully organized into a mosaic of interrelated segments which can be shown as a complete set or viewed individually. For example, Program II can be divided into two segments: one on precolumbian indigenous peoples and the other on the discovery and conquest.
The buried Mirror/El espejo enterrado consists of five parts, all expertly narrated by Carlos Fuentes, who conveys this enormous cultural portrait with astonishing ease and aplomb. Program I looks at the origins of Hispanic civilization and focuses on certain traits of Hispanic society: the bullring, flamenco, the presence of the Catholic church, and the multi-ethnic makeup of Hispanic society. Program II examines the indigenous background and the encounter in America.« less