Ana M. López

Ana M. López is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University. Laura Podalsky is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. Dolores Tierney is Professor and Head of Film Studies in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

"By bringing many of López's essays together into one carefully edited volume, Laura Podalsky and Dolores Tierney are not only paying tribute to someone they rightfully call one of the foremost scholars of Latin American cinema; they are also making it easier for young scholars to engage with a remarkable body of work that fruitfully combines breadth with depth, theory with close readings, and transnationalism with comparativism, all from a continental perspective." — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)"Ana M. López's Essays emerges as an indispensable navigational tool for scholars embarking on the terrain of Latin-American Cinema Studies. The essays within exhibit a notable degree of theoretical and analytical rigour, affirming the author's ability to formulate enquiries that paved the way for innovative and fruitful avenues of scholarly investigation. Beyond serving as a retrospective analysis of López's academic and professional trajectory, which remains both dynamic and provocative, the anthology of essays functions as a fundamental historical document. It proves instrumental in comprehending the genesis and consolidation of the broader field of Latin-American Cinema Studies and its extensions into specific geographical and thematic domains." — Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies"Ana López's work always provided a clear compass to the field, its debates, and its ideas. Her articles often result in long-living lines of inquiry and even entire subfields. All of us working in Latin American film studies are indebted to Ana's career and dedication." — from the foreword by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado"To state that Latin American film and media studies would not be the same without Ana López is no exaggeration. López not only helped carve out space in a historically Eurocentric discipline for consideration of Latin American and Latino/a/x cinema and film cultures but also made them an essential part of the conversation. While she is an academic legend, her work has never been static but has always evolved, taking us in new directions as we attempt to keep pace with her brilliance." — Rielle Navitski, author of Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForewordIgnacio M. Sánchez PradoIntroduction: At the Interface and BeyondLaura Podalsky and Dolores TierneyPart 1. Latin American Cinema/s: The Transnational Turn Editors' Introduction1. A Cinema for the Continent (1994) 2. National History, Transnational History (1998) 3. Facing Up to Hollywood (2000) 4. Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America (2000) 5. Film and Radio Intermedialities in Early Latin American Sound Cinema (2017) 6. From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, a (Trans)national Star (1998) 7. The São Paulo Connection: The Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz and O Cangaceiro (1998) 8. Crossing Nations and Genres: Traveling Filmmakers (2000) Part 2. Of Modes and Genres Editors' Introduction9. Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the "Old" Mexican Cinema (1994) 10. Our Welcomed Guests: Telenovelas in Latin America (1995) 11. Of Rhythms and Borders (1997) 12. Mexico (2012) 13. Before Exploitation: Three Men of the Cinema in Mexico (2009) 14. (Not) Looking for Origins: Postmodernism, Documentary, and America (1993) 15. Revolution and Dreams: The Cuban Documentary Today (1992) 16. The Battle of Chile: Documentary, Political Process, and Representation (1990) 17. At the Limits of Documentary: Hypertextual Transformation and the New Latin American Cinema (1990) 18. A Poetics of the Trace (2014) Part 3. Intersections: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Editors' Introduction 19. Not Only a Question of Color: Afro-Latino/a Images in Latin American Cinema Today (1992) 20. African Roots: Images of Black People in Cuban Cinema (1988) 21. Sergio Giral on Filmmaking in Cuba (1986–1987) With Nicholas Peter Humy22. Are All Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Ethnography, and Cultural Colonialism (1991) 23. Greater Cuba (1996) 24. I (Also) Love Ricky: The Oft-Forgotten Cuban-in-the-Text (2012) Part 4. Final Thoughts, Metacritical Reflections 25. López on López: Liminal Words (2012) "Siete Veces Ana": An Afterword Nilo CouretNotes Works CitedIndex