Ana M. López

Ana M. López is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University. Laura Podalsky is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. Dolores Tierney is Professor and Head of Film Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Foreword
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Introduction: At the Interface and Beyond
Laura Podalsky and Dolores Tierney

Part 1. Latin American Cinema/s: The Transnational Turn

Editors’ Introduction

1. A Cinema for the Continent (1994)

2. National History, Transnational History (1998)

3. Facing Up to Hollywood (2000)

4. Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America (2000)

5. Film and Radio Intermedialities in Early Latin American Sound Cinema (2017)

6. From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, a (Trans)national Star (1998)

7. The São Paulo Connection: The Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz and O Cangaceiro (1998)

8. Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers (2000)

Part 2. Of Modes and Genres

Editors’ Introduction

9. Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the “Old” Mexican Cinema (1994)

10. Our Welcomed Guests: Telenovelas in Latin America (1995)

11. Of Rhythms and Borders (1997)

12. Mexico (2012)

13. Before Exploitation: Three Men of the Cinema in Mexico (2009)

14. (Not) Looking for Origins: Postmodernism, Documentary, and America (1993)

15. Revolution and Dreams: The Cuban Documentary Today (1992)

16. The Battle of Chile: Documentary, Political Process, and Representation (1990)

17. At the Limits of Documentary: Hypertextual Transformation and the New Latin American Cinema (1990)

18. A Poetics of the Trace (2014)

Part 3. Intersections: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Editors’ Introduction

19. Not Only a Question of Color: Afro-Latino/a Images in Latin American Cinema Today (1992)

20. African Roots: Images of Black People in Cuban Cinema (1988)

21. Sergio Giral on Filmmaking in Cuba (1986–1987)
With Nicholas Peter Humy

22. Are All Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Ethnography, and Cultural Colonialism (1991)

23. Greater Cuba (1996)

24. I (Also) Love Ricky: The Oft-Forgotten Cuban-in-the-Text (2012)

Part 4. Final Thoughts, Metacritical Reflections

25. López on López: Liminal Words (2012)

“Siete Veces Ana”: An Afterword
Nilo Couret

Notes
Works Cited
Index