Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect

ISBN-13: 9780415532938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 260 str.

Adriaan Paerez Melgosa; Adri N. P. Rez Melgosa

Opis

This title 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).

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Adrián Pérez Melgosa is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.