Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect

260 Pages·2012·2.38 MB·English

by  Adrián Pérez Melgosa

Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Routledge Advances in Film Studies
1 Nation and Identity in the New 9 Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
German Cinema Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique
Homeless at Home Edited by Jyotsna Kapur and
Inga Scharf Keith B. Wagner
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The Sexual Life of Apartments 1893–1948
Lee Wallace The Untold History of the Film
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American Intervention, Vatican
Interests 11 Transnational Asian Identities in
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Pleasurable Fear New Deal
Julian Hanich Public Daydreams
Anna Siomopoulos
6 Cinema, Memory, Modernity
The Representation of Memory from 14 Theorizing Film Acting
the Art Film to Transnational Cinema Edited by Aaron Taylor
Russell J.A. Kilbourn
15 Stardom and the Aesthetics of
7 Distributing Silent Film Serials Neorealism
Local Practices, Changing Forms, Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini’s Italy
Cultural Transformation Ora Gelley
Rudmer Canjels
16 Postwar Renoir
8 The Politics of Loss and Trauma Film and the Memory of Violence
in Contemporary Israeli Cinema Colin Davis
Raz Yosef
17 Cinema and Inter-American
Relations
Tracking Transnational Affect
Adrián Pérez Melgosa

Cinema and Inter-American Relations
Tracking Transnational Affect
Adrián Pérez Melgosa
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Pérez Melgosa, Adrián.
Cinema and inter-American relations : tracking transnational affect /
Adrián Pérez Melgosa.
p. cm. — (Routledge advances in film studies ; 17)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Latin Americans in motion pictures. 2. Latin America—In
motion pictures. 3. Motion pictures—United States—History—20th
century. 4. Motion pictures—Latin America—History—20th
century. 5. Latin America—Relations—United States. 6. United
States—Relation—Latin America. I. Title.
PN1995.9.L37P47 2012
791.43098—dc23
2012003706
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To Da, Ben, Sam y Porvenir

Contents
List of Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: An Archive of Inter-American Aff ects 1
1 Cabaret America: Flying Down to Rio and the Construction of
Latin American Identity as Performance 17
2 Dance Diplomacy: Film Musical Comedies as Models of
Inter-American Integration 42
3 Hemispheric Romances at the Cinematic Contact Zone 76
4 The Ends of Magic: Post-Magical Realisms and the Aff ect of
Discovery 106
5 Capturing a Moving Identity: The Aff ective Work of Latino
Transnational Subjects 143
Conclusion 181
Notes 185
Filmography 213
Bibliography 217
Index 229