University of Minnesota Press, 2000 Paper: 978-0-8166-3348-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-3347-0 Library of Congress Classification PN1993.5.L3V58 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43098
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Film and Video Distributors
Introduction
Noriega,
Chon A.
Part I.
RETHEORIZING NATIONAL CINEMA: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
1.
El automóvil gris and the Advent of Mexican Classicism
Berg,
Charles Ramírez
2.
Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers
López,
Ana M.
3.
Araya across Time and Space: Competing Canons of National (Venezuelan) and International Film Histories
Burton-Carvajal,
Julianne
4.
Transcultured Anticommunism: Cold War Hollywood in Postwar Mexico
Fein,
Seth
Part II.
DESIRE AND THE NATION: CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
5.
Fulfilling Fantasies, Diverting Pleasures: Ana Carolina and Das tripas coração
Podalsky,
Laura
6.
Performing the Nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera
Hulsbus,
Monica
7.
Pornography and “the Popular” in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The Club Tívoli from Spota to Isaac
Fox,
Claire F.
8.
Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas: Gender and the Nation in Como agua para chocolate
Wu,
Harmony H.
9.
The World according to Plaff: Reassessing Cuban Cinema in the Late 1980s
Blasini,
Gilberto Moisés
Part III.
LOCAL AS GLOBAL POLITICS: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
10.
Grassroots Video in Latin America
Aufderheide,
Patricia
11.
Latin American Women's Alternative Film and Video: The Case of Cine Mujer, Colombia
Goldman,
Ilene S.
12.
Local Television and Community Politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TVAnhembi
Goldfarb,
Brian
13.
Steadfast Love and Subversive Acts: The Politics of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead