Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- Chapter One: The Making of Tony Montana 17 -- Phenotypes, Violence and Fetishism 19 -- Pathology, Immigration and Paranoia 30 -- The Spectacle of Hispanic Gangsters 40 -- Chapter Two: Hotel Maid in Manhattan 49 -- Exoticism, Temptation and Miscegenation 52 -- The Tarzan Syndrome and the Triple Bind 61 -- Melodrama, Patriarchy and the Savage Mind 69 -- Chapter Three: Latin American Geography in the Movies 81 -- Antipodal Lands and Modern Hagiographies 82 -- Geography as History: Science and Geographic Determinism 90 -- Maps, Missions and Gold 102 -- Chapter Four: Cinematic Humor and Difference 121 -- Dictatorships, Sex and Political Corruption 123 -- Banana Republics and De-legitimating Political Change 133 -- The Mastery of the North 139 -- Chapter Five: Contestation of the Colonial Past 151 -- Marianism, Guilt and Traditions 155 -- Education, Economics and Integration: The Tools of Freedom 162 -- Notes 171 -- Bibliography 189 -- Index 203.