Cinema and Inter-American Relations : Tracking Transnational Affect.

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...

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Main Author: Pérez Melgosa, Adrián
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge advances in film studies.
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Summary: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 the technologies used to produce these works, and explores the connections of cinema to successive shifts in hemispheric policy. As a result, Cinema and Inter-American Relations reveals the existence of a.
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:9781136256998
1136256997
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.