Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video (review)
In the 1960s, the movement known as the New Latin American Cinema stressed what film making by and about Latin Americans had in common. Since that time a number of studies have explored film making both within the framework of New Latin American Cinema and in the context of particular nation-states, especially Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. Chon A. Noriega, in his introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays, also points to the significance of the broader contexts in which telecommunications (and not just cinema) are in a process of globalization. Although Hollywood has dominated international markets for movies, the "globalization [of telecommunications] has followed a more multicentric and regional path. Herein lies the imperative—voiced most insistently outside the United States—to read the 'local,' 'popular,' and 'national' into the discussion of U.S.-dominated global media" (p. xiii).