Foreword / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado -- Introduction: At the interface and beyond / Laura A. Podalsky and Dolores Tierney -- A cinema for the continent (1994) -- National history, transnational history (1998) -- Facing up to Hollywood (2000) -- Early cinema and modernity (2000) -- Film and radio intermedialities in early Latin American cinema (2017) -- From Hollywood and back : Dolores Del Rio, a (trans)national star (1998) -- The São Paulo connection : the Companhia Cinematografica Vera Cruz and O Cangaceiro(1998) -- Crossing nations and genres : traveling filmmakers (2000) -- Tears and desire : women and melodrama in the "old" Mexican cinema (1994) -- Our welcomed guests : telenovelas in Latin America (1995) -- Of rhythms and borders (1997) -- Mexico (2012) -- Before exploitation : three men of the cinema in Mexico (2009) -- (not) looking for origins : postmodernism, documentary, and America (1993) -- Revolution and dreams : the Cuban documentary today (1992) -- The battle of Chile : documentary, political process, and representation (1990) -- At the limits of documentary : hypertextual transformation and the new Latin American cinema (1990) -- A poetics of the trace (2014) -- Not only a question of color : Afro-Latino/a images in Latin American cinema today (1992) -- African roots : images of black people in Cuban cinema (1988) -- Sergio Giral on filmmaking in Cuba (1986-87) with Nicolas Peter Humy -- Are all Latins from Manhattan? : Hollywood, ethnography, and cultural colonialism (1991) -- Greater Cuba (1996) -- I (also) love Ricky : the oft-forgotten Cuban-in-the-text (2012) -- López on López : liminal words (2012) -- "Siete veces Ana" : an afterword / Nilo Couret.
Summary:
"Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume"-- Provided by publisher.
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