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  • Transatlantic Cinephilia

    Film Culture between Latin America and France, 1945–1965

    Series Book 6 - Cinema Cultures in Contact
    In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who often worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests ... Read more

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  • Public Spectacles of Violence

    Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil

    In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America’s most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region’s largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896–1960

    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today's transnational media industries by several decades, these connections were defined by active economic and cultural exchanges, as well as longstanding inequalities in political power and ... Read more

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    Series series Open Media Series
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    Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes

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  • The Shining Path

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    Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain

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