"Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino’s Argentine agitprop documentary La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces, 1968) is unchallenged in its exemplary status in English-language scholarship on political cinema. A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema . . . both investigates and reifies the film’s prominence. . . . The film is interrogated anew from both formalist and historical perspectives. . . . Compelling essays explore the affinities and disjunctures that emerged in the course of The Hour of the Furnaces’s extended life onscreen and in scholarly discourse. . . . A Trail of Fire’s wide-ranging approach is stimulating . . . [The book] attests to how—extending the metaphor of the film and anthology’s titles—the embers of the sixties’ revolutionary energy can still be fanned to life in the present."

“Covering a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema highlights the persistent relevance of the work of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, underlining the complexity of the production and content of the film [The Hour of the Furnace], its influences, its exhibition and distribution, and its critical and political reception around the world. . . . Campo and Pérez-Blanco delve into what makes [the film] an object that deserves an extended and careful analysis. . . . An extraordinary introduction to a movie that remains a touchstone of Argentinian and Latin American cinema. . . . The collection will be essential for researchers and useful in courses that deal with cinema and politics, Argentinian and Latin American cinema, and documentary filmmaking.”