1st Edition
Cinema and Inter-American Relations Tracking Transnational Affect
By Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Copyright 2012
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of inter-American narratives in films from across the continent, highlights the social effects of... Read more
Introduction: An Archive of Inter-American Affects 1. Cabaret America: Flying Down to Rio and the Construction of Latin American Identity as Performance 2. Dance Diplomacy: Film Musical Comedies as Models of Inter-American Integration 3. Hemispheric Romances at the Cinematic Contact Zone 4. The Ends of Magic: Post-Magical Realisms and the Affect of Discovery 5. Capturing a Moving Identity: The Affective Work of Latino Transnational Subjects Conclusion
Biography
Adrián Pérez Melgosa is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
