Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections

During the past twenty years, Latin American cinema has experienced an enormous upsurge, prompting film critics and scholars to hail the onset of a new era. What this signals, more than thriving financial or production infrastructures, is a renovated cinematic vision connected more closely to everyday experience and social and cultural concerns.

The films analyzed in this collection reflect and examine contemporary lives in their diversity and singularity, through their focus on identity po...