Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History Paperback - 2016

From the rear cover

"An ambitious and accomplished book by a serious scholar who devoted a decade to the close reading of more than fifty films from different countries, thereby giving full sense to the term Latin American cinema. Starting with the silent era and finishing with the emergence of filmmaking by women directors, Paul Schroeder Rodrguez maps out an important artistic expression that is national, regional, and global at the same time."--Jorge Ruffinelli, Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University

"A cogently written history eloquently illustrated with case examples of various films in each period."--Tamara L. Falicov, author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film

"Schroeder Rodrguez's comparative framework is an important contribution to the study of Latin American cinema, global cinema, and Latin American history. Read against key discourses of modernity in Latin America and nascent and industrial histories of the cinema, the work reveals that Latin American cinema has always been part of global cinematic flows."--Cristina Venegas, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara