Cinema and Inter-American Relations : Tracking Transnational Affect.

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.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Latin Americans in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Latin America > History > 20th century.
International relations
Latin Americans in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Latin America > In motion pictures.
Latin America > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Latin America.
Latin America
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an archive of inter-American affects
  • Cabaret America: flying down to Rio and the construction of Latin American identity as performance
  • Dance diplomacy: film musical comedies as models of inter-American integration
  • Hemispheric romances at the cinematic contact zone
  • The ends of magic: post-magical realisms and the affect of discovery
  • Capturing a moving identity: the affective work of Latino transnational subjects
  • Conclusion.

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