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The complex characteristics of New Spain's theatricality become forms of hegemonic domination, mainly when in contact with the Church--either in school festivals, or in autos de fe. These other forms of New Spain theatricality are genuine "representations", as an image of power and as theatrical entertainment, with their specific theatrical elements: stage, costumes, props, music, action... In this paper, I review several Mexican documents, related to the Jesuit school festivals (1600, 1602 and 1640) and autos de fe from 1646 to 1659, from this theatrical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Framed in the dispute arisen in Venezuela among historians from the National Academy of History and the National History Center created by Hugo Chavez's government in 2007, this article inquires how power is represented, particularly in the case of President Hugo Chavez, in 24 magazines from Memorias de Venezuela. The analysis is supported on the theory about representation from Louis Marin and Roger Chartier, and on the kinds of domination worked by Max Weber. The methodology used is structural content analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid-1930s, YPF and the ACÁ forged a partnership that is still active today. The developed plan included the construction of gas stations and social centers for the Automobile Club. Its fulfillment took over a decade and involved a highly complex level of organization due to the diversity of the program and the extent of the network. By examining the different territorial, architectural and institutional aspects involved we explain how the architectural production of the ACA was conceived, starting out from an innovative functional program. Our analysis reflects the constantly changing mindset of the time, which swung between the urge to express a modern image and the desire to reveal an identity associated with the vernacular culture. In the works executed between 1935 and 1946, we verify the way power was represented through the modernist expression of architecture in order to highlight, amongst other things, institutional efficiency and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]