Modern Languages professor publishes article in international book

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MARIETTA, OHIO (11/20/2018) Samuel Cruz, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Marietta College, has recently published an article in the Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex, and Latin American Culture.

The article, "Class, Gender, Race in Recent Filmic Urban Brazilian Spaces," looks at two recent Brazilian Films and their portrayal of Sao Paulo - South America's largest city.

Cruz analyzes the disenfranchisement and marginalization in the first film, Os Inquilinos, which offers audiences the chance to explore the socioeconomic, cultural and political issues in the city while discussing urban violence and the politics of representation.

The second film discussed, Linha de Passe, which critiques class, gender and power inequalities through the eyes of the working class.

"Cities are the pinnacle of human achievement," said Cruz, "and Brazilian films have been an important mechanism for helping audiences at home and abroad to perceive and better understand the city's role in perpetuating social injustice."

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex, and Latin American Culture is the volume of the book to explore commonalities of gender, sex and the consumption of popular culture in the Americas, and seeks to understand the role of pop culture in everyday lives.

"It is an honor to have my article published in such a unique volume," said Cruz, who is also the director of the Latin American Studies program at Marietta College.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers 49 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.

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