Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Film and Video Distributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part I. RETHEORIZING NATIONAL CINEMA: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD......Page 28
1. El automóvil gris and the Advent of Mexican Classicism......Page 30
2. Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers......Page 60
3. Araya across Time and Space: Competing Canons of National (Venezuelan) and International Film Histories......Page 78
4. Transcultured Anticommunism: Cold War Hollywood in Postwar Mexico......Page 109
Part II. DESIRE AND THE NATION: CONTEMPORARY CINEMA......Page 140
5. Fulfilling Fantasies, Diverting Pleasures: Ana Carolina and Das tripas coração......Page 142
6. Performing the Nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera......Page 157
7. Pornography and "the Popular" in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: The Club Tívoli from Spota to Isaac......Page 170
8. Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas: Gender and the Nation in Como agua para chocolate......Page 201
9. The World according to Plaff: Reassessing Cuban Cinema in the Late 1980s......Page 220
Part III. LOCAL AS GLOBAL POLITICS: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA......Page 244
10. Grassroots Video in Latin America......Page 246
11. Latin American Women's Alternative Film and Video: The Case of Cine Mujer, Colombia......Page 266
12. Local Television and Community Politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TV Anhembi......Page 290
13. Steadfast Love and Subversive Acts: The Politics of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead......Page 312
Contributors......Page 330