I am inspired to create a Latin American film course using this anthology! It’s perfect for the classroom. The excellent selection of films presents a wide range of pressing Latin American issues in provocative ways. This is a unique anthology in which experts in the field of Latin American history analyze and evaluate films in depth with cultural and historical context.

Linda A. Curcio, University of Nevada, Reno

I have always thought of Latin America as a big, fat telenovela in which we are all overwrought characters. This book offers a more measured version of it, with Lope de Aguirre, Sor Juana, Che Guevara, and Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero eating popcorn and crying crocodile tears together.

Ilan Stavans, Amherst College and author of Talmudic Void: An Interstellar Interpretation

This is much more than a welcome update to Donald Stevens’s first important collection. It is a veritable new volume, with an array of recent films—from Apocalypto to Roma—under scrutiny and filled with essays brimming with insight and analysis. This volume should become a standard reference point for teachers and researchers of Latin American history and film.

Raymond Craib, Cornell University