This month featuring book on U.S. -Latin America: History, Propaganda, and Media from Amazon and Cinema Across Latin America from the University of California Press.
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Author: Robert Holden & Eric Zolov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0195385687
Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History brings together key documents on U.S.–Latin American relations from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition to diplomatic sources, it includes texts on economic ties, the environment, immigration, human rights, and culture, reflecting diverse perspectives—including Latin American voices and U.S. public opinion. The fully revised second edition adds 21 new documents and revises 10 others, with many translated from Spanish. Each document is introduced with historical context. Ideal for courses, this volume is also a valuable reference for professionals, journalists, and scholars.
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Author: Philip Wayne Powell
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN-13: 978-0826345769
First published in the early 1970s, Tree of Hate is Philip Powell’s examination of the “Black Legend”—the myth that colonial Spain and its agents were uniquely brutal in the conquest of the Americas. Powell explores the origins of what he calls Hispanophobia and analyzes its influence on American education, textbooks, religion, and especially foreign policy. He argues that many English-speaking scholars and diplomats have expressed biased views, building a “Tree of Hate” from ignorance or prejudice. As the Journal of American History notes, Powell’s work deserves careful reading.
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Author: Alan L. McPherson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0674019973
In Yankee No!, Alan McPherson explores the roots of anti-Americanism in Latin America, sparked by events like the 1958 attack on Vice President Nixon in Caracas. Focusing on the Cuban Revolution, the 1964 Panama riots, and U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, he blends cultural and political analysis to reveal the complex, shifting nature of Latin American views—often ambivalent—toward the U.S. McPherson shows how Washington responded with ideological consistency but warns that ignoring the deeper causes of resentment is risky. Dramatic and timely, this is a compelling contribution to international history.
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Author: Richard R. Cole
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0842025584
Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media, and Society, edited by Richard R. Cole, brings together twelve original essays exploring how mass communication has evolved in Latin America and how political climates have shaped the media. The book emphasizes journalism, long a strong institution in the region, and is divided into two parts: one addressing broad themes—such as women in media, professional organizations, and propaganda—and the other focusing on specific countries, including press freedom in Mexico and Chile, and Argentina's media in democracy. Cole concludes with a forecast on the region’s communication future.
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Author: Maite Conde
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 9780520290990
In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema. Focusing on silent films released during the First Republic (1889-1930), Foundational Films explores how the medium became implicated in a larger project to transform Brazil into a modern nation. Analyzing an array of cinematic forms, from depictions of contemporary life and fan magazines, to experimental avant-garde productions, Conde demonstrates the distinct ways in which Brazil’s early film culture helped to project a new image of the country.
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Author: Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 9780520296855
In Mock Classicism, Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema, tracing the popularity of film comedies as responses to modernization and precursors to the political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. Examining comedians like Cantinflas, Oscarito, Niní Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, Couret highlights how comedy operates through embodiment and spatiotemporal emplacement. Through close readings, archival research, and film theory, he argues that Latin American cinema became classical in ways distinct from Hollywood, producing a “critically proximate” spectator who perceives space and time differently.
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Author: Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 9780520288638
This book offers a comparative history of Latin America’s national cinemas through ten chapters spanning major cinematic periods: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism, art cinema, New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez blends close readings of around fifty key films into a lucid, scholarly narrative framed by a compelling theorization of modernity. The result is an essential guide to the region’s cultural history, showing how institutions like the church and state have shaped cinema’s power to influence public discourse and construct modern identities amid ongoing struggles for justice and liberation.
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Author: Masha Salazkina
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 9780520400757
This book traces the production, global circulation, and reception of Yesenia (1971), the highest-grossing film in Soviet exhibition history. Adapted from a telenovela and graphic novel set during the Franco-Mexican War, the Mexican romance sold over ninety million tickets in its first year in the USSR. Drawing on extensive archival research, Masha Salazkina uses Yesenia's unexpected popularity to explore 1970s Mexican and Soviet cultures and the global flow of popular media. Focusing on shifting sexual politics, she highlights the ideological complexities and enduring impact of melodrama in global popular culture.
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