Mediating Two Worlds: Cinematic Encounters in the Americas Book

	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Contributors
	General Introduction
	The Circular Look: The Incursion of North American Fictional Cinema 1911-1917 into the Mexican Revolution	3
	The Magnificent Seven	15
	Patterns of the Primitive: Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico!	25
	Bunuel in Mexico	40
	Internal 'Others': Hollywood Narratives 'about' Mexican-Americans	52
	Are all Latins from Manhattan?: Hollywood, Ethnography and Cultural Colonialism	67
	High-tech Primitivism: The Representation of Tribal Societies in Feature Films	81
	'All That Trouble Down There': Hollywood and Central America	95
	Neo-Realism and New Latin American Cinema: Bicycle Thieves and Blood of the Condor	104
	Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-Cinema: European Cinema and Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema	119
	Mexican Cinema: Of Myths and Demystifications	139
	Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the 'Old' Mexican Cinema	147
	Modernity and Cultural Mixture: The Case of Buenos Aires	164
	Cross-cultural Dialogisms: Race and Multiculturalism in Brazilian Cinema	175
	Eldorado as Hell: Cinema Novo and Post Cinema Novo - Appropriations of the Imaginary of the Discovery	192
	In the Belly of the Ogre: Cinema and State in Latin America	204
	Colombia: State Role in Film Production	214
	Mexican Cinema Comes Alive	222
	Death is not True: Form and History in Cuban Film	230
	National Cinema after Globalization: Fernando Solanas's Sur and the Exiled Nation	242
	Regarding Rape: Fictions of Origin and Film Spectatorship	258
	Zoot Suit: The 'Return to the Beginning'	269
	'Transparent Women': Gender and Nation in Cuban Cinema	279
	Select Bibliography	293
	Index	299