Ebook: Latin American cinema: essays on modernity, gender and national identity

"These collected essays explore important elements of Latin American cinema and its associated national film industries. These essays examine the impact of modernization on both Latin American screen images and the industry itself, focus on filmmakers who deal with issues of gender and sexuality and discuss the relationship between national identity and the Latin American film industry"--Provided by publisher.;Reflections on modernity, gender, and nation in the Latin American context / Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison -- TV Globo, the MPA, and contemporary Brazilian cinema / Randal Johnson -- Images of Peru: a national cinema in crisis / Sarah Barrow -- Crossing the line in Mexico / Robert J. Miles -- Nelson and Nelson / Ismail Xavier -- María Luisa Bemberg winks at the audience / Claire Taylor -- Nelson Rodrigues into film / Stephanie Dennison -- Born at last? Cinema and social imaginary in 21st-century Uruguay / Keith Richards -- Mulata Cubana / Alison Fraunhar -- Brazil through Hollywood's gaze / Lisa Shaw and Maite Conde.