Introduction: Troubling Histories
Marvin D'Lugo, Ana M. Lopez and Laura Podalsky
I. Historiographies
Chapter 1: National cinema
Juan Poblete
Chapter 2: Silent and early sound cinema in Latin America: local, national, and transnational perspectives
Rielle Navitski
Chapter 3: National cinemas (re)ignited: film and the state
Lisa Shaw, Luis Duno-Gottberg, Joanna Page, and Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
Chapter 4: Unpacking periodization
Laura Podalsky
Chapter 5: Off-screen culture
Maite Conde, Laura Isabel Serna, and Maria Fernanda Arias Osorio
Chapter 6: Space, politics and the crisis of hegemony in Latin American film
Geoffrey Kantaris
Chapter 7: Encounters with the centaur: forms of the film-essay in Latin America
Maria Luisa Ortega
Chapter 8: Realism, documentary, and the process genre in early New Latin American Cinema
Salome Aguilera Skvirsky
II. Interrogating critical paradigms
Chapter 9: Cosmopolitan nationalisms: transnational aesthetic negotiations in early Latin American sound cinema
Adrian Perez Melgosa
Chapter 10: Genre films then and now
Gerard Dapena
Chapter 11: New Latin American stardom
Dolores Tierney, Victoria Ruetalo, and Roberto Carlos Ortiz
Chapter 12: Radical ruptures in the cinema of Latin America around 1968
Mariano Mestman
Chapter 13: Transnational genealogies of institutional film culture of Cuba, 1960s-70s
Masha Salazkina
Chapter 14: New frameworks: collaborative and indigenous media activism
Freya Schiwy, Amalia Cordova David Wood, and Horacio Legras
Chapter 15: Productions of space/places of construction: landscape and architecture in contemporary Latin American film
Jens Andermann
Chapter 16: Enduring art cinema
Nilo Couret
III. Business practices
Chapter 17: Transnational networks of financing and distribution: international co-productions
Luisela Alvaray
Chapter 18: The interlocking dynamics of domestic and international film festivals: the case of Latin American and Caribbean cinema
Tamara L. Falicov
IV. Intermedialities
Chapter 19: Film and photography: an archeology
Andrea Cuarterolo
Chapter 20: Problematizing film and photography
Alejandro Kelly-Hopfenblatt and Silvana Flores
Chapter 21: Film and radio intermedialities in early Latin American sound cinema
Ana M. Lopez
Chapter 22: Music in Latin American cinema: aural communities on- and off-screen
Marvin D'Lugo
Chapter 23: Film and television
Josetxo Cerdan and Miguel Fernandez Labayen
Chapter 24: Latin American film in the digital age
Gonzalo Aguilar, Mariana Lacunza, and Niamh Thornton