Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Argentina (edited by Timothy Barnard)
• Bolivia (edited by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron)
• Brazil (edited by Ana López and Peter Rist)
• Chile (edited by Timothy Barnard and Peter Rist)
• Colombia (edited by Paul Lenti)
• Ecuador (edited by Timothy Barnard)
• Paraguay (edited by Peter Rist)
• Peru (edited by Isaac León Frías)
• Uruguay (edited by Timothy Barnard)
• Venezuela (edited by Timothy Barnard, Mitch Parry, and Peter Rist)
• Table of Films
• Original-language Film Title Index
• English-language Film Title Index
• Film Directors Index
• Contributors Index
• Name and Title Index
• Subject Index: South American Cinema
• Subject Index: South American Society
• Glossary of Brazilian Terms
• Glossary of Film Terms
• Works Consulted
• Notes on Contributors

Promotional Information

"This is a key reference text that should have a prominent place in the library of anyone interested in Latin American cinema... Highly synthetic essays dedicated to individual films carefully situate each work in both historical and cinematic terms. In the best of cases, this method models an alternative writing of national film history through individual essays on outstanding films contextualized within their maker's career and the contemporaneous profile of national film culture... An ambitious and valuable volume." -- Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

About the Author

Timothy Barnard is a writer and translator who has written on Latin American, French, and early cinema. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Peter Rist is Chair of the Department of Cinema at Concordia University