Introduction / Chon A. Noriega
pt. 1. Retheorizing national cinema: the classical period. El automóvil gris and the advent of Mexican classicism / Charles Ramírez Berg. Crossing nations and genres: traveling filmmakers / Ana M. López. Araya across time and space: competing canons of national (Venezuelan) and international film histories / Julianne Burton-Carvajal. Transcultured anticommunism: Cold War Hollywood in postwar Mexico / Seth Fein
pt. 2. Desire and the nation: contemporary cinema. Fulfilling fantasies, diverting pleasures: Ana Carolina and Das tripas coração / Laura Podalsky. Performing the nation in Sergio Toledo's Vera / Monica Hulsbus. Pornography and "the popular" in post-revolutionary Mexico: the Club Tívoli from Spota to Isaac / Claire F. Fox. Consuming tacos and enchiladas: gender and the nation in Como agua para chocolate / Harmony H. Wu. The world according to Plaff: reassessing Cuban cinema in the late 1980s / Gilberto Moisés Blasini
pt. 3. Local as global politics: alternative media. Grassroots video in Latin America / Patricia Aufderheide. Latin American women's alternative film and video: the case of Cine Mujer, Colombia / Ilene S. Goldman. Local television and community politics in Brazil: São Paulo's TV Anhembi / Brian Goldfarb. Steadfast love and subversive acts: the politics of La ofrenda: The days of the dead / Kathleen Newman.
