Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Through Other Worlds and Other Times: Critical Praxis and Latin American Cinema -- Chapter 1 High-Rise Apartments, Arcades, Cars, and Hoteles de citas: Urban Discourse and the Reconstruction of the Public/Private Divide in 1960s Buenos Aires -- Chapter 2 Backwards Blindness: Brazilian Cinema of the 1980s -- Chapter 3 Recent Colombian Cinema: Public Histories and Private Stories -- Chapter 4 When the Mountains Tremble: Images of Ethnicity in a Transcultural Text -- Chapter 5 How Real Is Reel? Fernando de Fuentes's Revolutionary Trilogy -- Chapter 6 Kiss of the Spider Woman, Novel, Play, and Film: Homosexuality and the Discourse of the Maternal in a Third World Prison -- Chapter 7 Moving to Thought: The Inspired Reflective Cinema of Fernando Pérez -- Chapter 8 Román Chalbaud: The "National" Melodrama on an Air of Bolero -- Chapter 9 The Persistence of Vision: Going to the Movies in Colombia -- Chapter 10 Mexican Melodramas of Patriarchy: Specificity of a Transcultural Form -- Chapter 11 Queering the Patriarchy in Hermosillo's Doña Herlinda y su hijo -- Chapter 12 Will There Be Latin American Cinema in the Year 2000? Visual Culture in a Postnational Era -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.