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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785939003321

Autore

Perez Melgosa Adrian

Titolo

Cinema and inter-American relations : tracking transnational affect / / Adrian Perez Melgosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-25698-9

1-283-70854-X

0-203-10621-0

1-136-25699-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 17

Disciplina

791.43098

Soggetti

Latin Americans in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Latin America - History - 20th century

Latin America In motion pictures

Latin America Relations United States

United States Relations Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index.

Includes filmography.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: an archive of inter-American affects -- Cabaret America: flying down to Rio and the construction of Latin American identity as performance -- Dance diplomacy: film musical comedies as models of inter-American integration -- Hemispheric romances at the cinematic contact zone -- The ends of magic: post-magical realisms and the affect of discovery -- Capturing a moving identity: the affective work of Latino transnational subjects -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). PeĢrez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of inter-American narratives in films from across the continent, highlights the social effects of the



technologies used to produce these works, and explores the connections of cinema to successive shifts in hemispheric policy. As a result, Cinema and Inter-American Relations reveal