Foreword -- Introduction -- The making of Tony Montana. Phenotypes, violence and fetishism -- Pathology, immigration and social paranoia -- The spectacle of Hispanic gangsters -- Hotel maid in Manhattan. Exoticism, temptation and fear of miscegenation -- The Tarzan syndrome and the triple bind -- Melodrama, patriarchy and the savage mind -- Latin American geography in the movies. Antipodal lands and modern hagiographies -- Geography as history, science and geographic determinism -- Maps, missions and gold -- Cinematic humor and difference. Dictatorships, sex and political corruption -- Banana republics and de-legitimating political change -- The mastery of the North -- Contestation of the colonial past. Marianism, guilt and traditions -- Education, economics and integration: the tools of freedom.
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Framing film : the history & art of cinema ; vol. 14
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