For my culminating thesis project towards completion of my MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre (TVFT) Writing Option, I will be writing a mini-bible, along with two full scripts for a one-hour, anthology drama television series, titled Los Muertos. I have developed this series as a culmination of my study and work in the Television, Film and Theatre MFA at CSULA. Los Muertos is also a culmination of my years as a writer, inspired in part by family stories and personal history. In Los Muertos, I investigate and explore the concept of death through the lenses of family, geography, community and cultural context, through a one-hour, anthology drama series about life and death in North East Los Angeles. Here, the dead are not the enemy, but the enlightened. Their stories unfold post-mortem, as those they leave behind begin to understand (sometimes unknowingly) that death is just as fragile as life, and maybe the connections one finds on either side of the veil, are all that really matters. Each Muerto, in effect, serve as guides through their episode, connecting characters and contexts to each other until the true meaning of his/her death becomes clear.Los Muertos examines the experiences of communities not often given voice on major television. These communities burst with cultures from opposite sides of the world, interacting in a collaborative struggle for survival: the workers who make Downtown function, the gardeners and cleaning crews, the bus-riders and park-dwellers, the families breaking daily sweats to send kids to college. These vibrant lives signal just as many deaths, and it is here that the series explores the "what comes next" aspect. A death brings people together, in some ways even more than a life. In Los Muertos, death is a catalyst. Death is the fuel that ignites and powers each episode, thrusting each protagonist through the muck and mire to clarity and redemption. As my thesis, Los Muertos will stand as a representation of my creative range and professional growth as a screenwriter. I will write two full scripts-the bookend episodes of the series-and synopsize the remaining six episodes. Along with other materials this will become a mini-bible of the series, plotting out where the series intends to go (if further than one season), and detailing all the story elements and character breakdowns of the series as it stands.Los Muertos is a series about death, but not as the end of the story, nor the beginning-here, death is a state of mind, engaged by both those above the ground and below.
After 17 years of praying to the Gods Jack begins his long journey home. However, Jack is not aware of the test the Gods have for him before he can truly go home. First he must realize he is the long ago profecied Chosen One, then he must survive the test before he can try to go home and attempt to fulfill his promise to Linnie.
Joaquín is now remarried and has for children. He is a citizen of the U.S. and works full-time in Santa Cruz County mental health services. He volunteers as a soccer coach, plays and sings in a band, and writes at night. "I think some of the stories in my book have to do with conscious and unconscious efforts to assimilate, to fit in. Losing your sense of self in those efforts. Getting to a point, after a falling, where you reconnect with yourself and your roots."--Jacket.
This book has a long umbilical cord. It is about Spanish and American families that separately arrive in the Philippines in 1896 and 1931. They lived during the colonial eras in the Philippines from the 16th to the 20th century. Members of the third and fourth generations of the Capen and Rodriguez families, who agreed to talk about their and their forebears' lives, are veritable representatives of the first and second generations of their ancestors, who are no longer around. The story-telling is aided by documents, letters, recollections of relatives, and a comprehensive family tree that dates as far back as 400 years; their recollections are animated not only by their knowledge of the past but by the depth and the growth of their self-knowledge. This information, in modern times, is a viable warranty. In a sense, this book has psychological inroads to the living and the dead.
Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate in Latin America. This collection explores the Latin American engagement with postmodernism, less to present a regional variant of the concept than to situate it in a transnational framework. Recognizing that postmodernism in Latin America can only inaccurately be thought of as having traveled from an advanced capitalist "center" to arrive at a still dependent neocolonial "periphery," the contributors share the assumption that postmodernism is itself about the dynamics of interaction between local and metropolitan cultures in a global system in which the center-periphery model has begun to break down. These essays examine the ways in which postmodernism not only designates the effects of this transnationalism in Latin America, but also registers the cultural and political impact on an increasingly simultaneous global culture of a Latin America struggling with its own set of postcolonial contingencies, particularly the crisis of its political left, the dominance of neoliberal economic models, and the new challenges and possibilities opened by democratization. With new essays on the dynamics of Brazilian culture, the relationship between postmodernism and Latin American feminism, postmodernism and imperialism, and the implications of postmodernist theory for social policy, as well as the text of the Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle of the Zapatatista National Liberation Army, this expanded edition of boundary 2 will interest not only Latin Americanists, but scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern. Contributors. Xavier Albó, José Joaquín Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel, Néstor García Canclini, Martín Hopenhayn, Neil Larsen, the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group, Norbert Lechner, María Milagros López, Raquel Olea, Aníbal Quijano, Nelly Richard, Carlos Rincón, Silviano Santiago, Beatriz Sarlo, Roberto Schwarz, and Hernán Vidal
On a summer weekend of 1964, four Chicano teenagers help a white girl run away. Dogged by a mob led by the girl's father, our heroes descend into a harrowing climax that no kid in his right mind would have chosen.
After 17 years of praying to the Gods Jack begins his long journey home. However, Jack is not aware of the test the Gods have for him before he can truly go home. First he must realize he is the long ago prophesied Chosen One, then he must survive the test before he can try to go home and attempt to fulfil his promise to Linnie.
Redemption is the continuation of the life of Jack. A young boy of 8 years of age who was forced to grow up in a foreign land away from friends and family after 17 years of praying to the Gods for the strength to survive and to find a way home and an opportunity to keep his promise to Linda (Linnie). Jack finds a way home. However, before he can go home the Gods have a plan for him. They wish to test him to see if he is worthy of being the long ago prophesied Chosen One. Even if he is found worthy of the honor of being the Chosen One he must still pass one final test before he gets the blessing of the Gods. The test is the Man-Beasts. Just when Jack thinks he has finally satisfied The Gods and he can start his attempt to find Linda and keep his promise other issues arise that once again he must prove his loyalties and his love. Finally after 3 more years of searching, and fighting Jack gets his shot at Redemption.
The Chosen One is the completion of the story of Jack and Linda. The long struggle that they have had to survive to finally get the peace they have wanted all their lives. However, before they can reach that peace they must first deal with a vengeful young and powerful master sorcerror. This young sorcerror will do whatever it takes to get even for the death of his parents. If they can survive the personal attacks from the young sorcerror then they must still deal with his army. In addition Jack left behind a broken hearted woman who wants revenge herself. She will bend an entire nation to her will to revenge her broken heart. All of this while Jack is trying to learn the power of the God Stone Sword. Will he survive?
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After 17 years of praying to the Gods Jack begins his long journey home. However, Jack is not aware of the test the Gods have for him before he can truly go home. First he must realize he is the long ago profecied Chosen One, then he must survive the test before he can try to go home and attempt to fulfill his promise to Linnie.
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