Table of Contents
pt. 1. Retheorizing national cinema : the classical period. El automâovil gris and the advent of Mexican classicism / Charles Ramâirez Berg. Crossing nations and genres : traveling filmmakers / Ana M. Lâopez. Araya across time and space : competing canons of national (Venezuelan) and international film histories / Julianne Burton-Carvajal. Transcultured anticommunism : Cold War Hollywood in postwar Mexico / Seth Fein -- pt. 2. Desire and the nation : contemporary cinema. Fulfilling fantasies, diverting pleasures : Ana Carolina and Das tripas coraðcäao / Laura Podalsky. Performing the nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera / Monica Hulsbus. Pornography and "the popular" in post-revolutionary Mexico : the Club Tâivoli from Spota to Isaac / Claire F. Fox. Consuming tacos and enchiladas : gender and the nation in Como agua para chocolate / Harmony H. Wu. The world according to Plaff : reassessing Cuban cinema in the late 1980s / Gilberto Moisâes Blasini -- pt. 3. Local as global politics : alternative media. Grassroots video in Latin America / Patricia Aufderheide. Latin American women's alternative film and video : the case of Cine Mujer, Colombia / Ilene S. Goldman. Local television and community politics in Brazil : Säao Paulo's TV Anhembi / Brian Goldfarb. Steadfast love and subversive acts : the politics of La ofrenda, the days of the dead / Kathleen Newman.