Latin American cinemas: local views and transnational connections

Introduction

Part I. Crisis of the Nation-State and Desire for Community. 1. National Belonging in Juan José Campanella's Luna de Avellaneda / Rebecca L. Lee

- 2. From National Allegory to Autobiography: Un-Pleasure and Other Family Pathologies in Two Films by Lucrecia Martel / Paola Arboleda Ríos

- 3. Bodily Representations: Disease and Rape in Francisco Lombardi's Ojos que no ven / Elizabeth Montes Garcés and Myriam Osorio

- 4. Films by Day and Films by Night in São Paulo / David W. Foster

Part II. Sexuality, Rape and Representation. 1. Bodies So Close, and Yet So Far: Seeing Julián Hernandez's El cielo dividido through Gilles Deleuze's Film Theory / Gerard Dapena

- 2. Myth and the Monster of Intersex: Narrative Strategies of Otherness in Lucía Puenzo's XXY / Charlotte E. Gleghorn

- 3. Watching Rape in Mexican Cinema / Isabel Arredondo

Part III. Visions of the Transnational. 1. A Shamanic Transmodernity: Juan Mora Catlett's Eréndira Ikikunari / Keith John Richards

- 2. We Are Equal: Women and Video in Zapatista Chiapas / Elissa J. Rashkin

- 3. Sexploitation, Space, and Lesbian Representation in Armando Bo's Fuego / Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios

- 4. At the Transnational Crossroads: Colombian Cinema and Its Search for a Film Industry / Juana Suárez.