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...Paula Halperin A book that film scholars, historians of Latin America, and students will find stimulating and innovative, Alton's Paradox is a provocative inquiry into the many meanings and definitions of a “national film culture,” the essentially transnational character of cinema...

... Amado's Os subterrâneos da liberdade (1954), a critique of the Vargas dictatorship—celebrates the working-class youngsters and their desire to rise socially. While Cinema Novo was an all-male club, Sadlier emphasizes the contributions to the movement of Helena Solberg, whose first film, 1966’s...

...Fernando Mino [email protected] Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965 . By Rielle Navitski . Cinema Cultures in Contact . Oakland : University of California Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography...

...Andrew G. Wood Mexico’s Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers . Edited by Hershfield Joanne and Maciel David R. . Wilmington, Del : Scholarly Resources , 1999 . Photographs, Illustrations. Indexes . xiv , 313 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper , $21.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Charles V. Heath Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age . By Serna Laura Isabel . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 317 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke...

...Christine Ehrick Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film . By Juan Sebastián Ospina León . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 250 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright ©...

...Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Deborah Martin's Painting, Literature, and Film in Colombian Feminine Culture, 1940–2005 shows how a scholar can draw from multiple areas of study, including art history, literary criticism, anthropology, cultural theory, and film studies, and tie together the production...

...Deborah Kanter From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture . Edited by Mendible Myra . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2007 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xi , 323 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Paper , $24.95 . Copyright...

...John G. Mraz There is much to commend in Professor Burns’ treatment of Latin American cinema. His focus on neo-colonialism and the revolutionary nationalist response to it as the source of the only worthwhile films being produced in Latin America correctly identifies these films...

...Sarah Sarzynski Foundational Films: Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil . By Maite Conde . Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 306 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020...

... the conservative impact of mass culture cannot simply be assumed. By overlooking the content of the films, music, and radio theater consumed in the barrios, historians have missed a crucial window onto the paradoxical cultural universe of the 1930s. This article will begin to rectify this oversight by exploring...

... and Caribbean studies, and Latin American intellectual discourse during the early twentieth century. It provides both an excellent historiography of silent and sound films produced on the island before World War II and a treatise on how the idea of the Puerto Rican nation emerged as a “mediation among...

... 1987 Michael Chanan’s The Cuban Image is the first full-length study of the history and role of the Cuban cinema to be written in English. It concentrates on the development of the political role of the Cuban film industry from the earliest newsreels of the Cuban-Spanish-American War at the turn...

... . Paper , $24.95 . © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Inspired by the 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio , Rosalie Schwartz’s cultural history of aviation, film, and tourism discovers fascinating connections among these three industries that not only developed contemporaneously — the year 1927...

... political conditions in Argentina, in Chile, in Peru.” The films which certified the importance of this incipient film movement in the eyes of the world—e.g., The Hour of the Furnaces, The Jackal of Nahueltoro, Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, Antonio das Mortes— have received little exposure...

... Purcell’s ¡De película! is a unique and focused transnational study of the reception of Hollywood film in Chile’s major cities and interior. Taking its lead from the work of historians of cultural imperialism in Latin America, the book explores the question, first raised by Ariel Dorfman and Armand...

... pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Although certain periods of sociopolitical and economic turbulence — notably the neo-fascist coup of 1976 — have depressed the production of Argentine films, Argentine film-making has always been a vigorous proposition...

... on the conceit that the essays are like films which make up a cinema bill. Ciria begins with a short subject, “Lo que el cine me enseñó.” His approach is deliberately personal, even autobiographical, beginning with memories of his own childhood, growing up after the 1930s in a Buenos Aires apartment building...

... and cultural production. The previous chapters, however, do not benefit from interpolation of significant scholarship published since 1990 about pre-1990 Latin American film. Magical Reels ’s cover photograph indicates, too, what is different and the same about its millennium edition. As with the earlier...

... thrilled audiences, spurring the emergence of local film industries. After World War I, Hollywood studios, backed by the US government, gained dominance over foreign markets, turning the cinema into a powerful vector of US cultural influence abroad. Scholars have examined early Latin American film...