Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the
experience of movie-going is universal. The cinematic experience in Mexico is no less …

In the Vortex of Violence examines the uncharted history of lynching in post-revolutionary
Mexico. Based on a collection of previously untapped sources, the book examines why …

José Revueltas, México 68: Juventud y revolución, ed. Andrea Revueltas and Philippe
Cheron (Mexico City: Era, 1978), 188:“No hemos sido derrotados...”.“El grito (The Scream) …

Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the
lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism. By examining the …

The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day.
Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and …

260 Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies prey to intentional fallacy in his analysis,
discovering within the indexicality of the cinematographic image an authorial intent where …

In some ways, writing a dissertation is the most solitary act one can undertake as a scholar.
To finish it, however, takes a village, and I am profoundly grateful for the relationships and …

Though commercially successful at home and widely recognized abroad, Roberto
Gavaldón's 1960 film Macario has been underexamined by critics and scholars due to its …

This essay makes the case for sensationalism as an archive of violence. It traces the ways in
which the Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals draws from the sensationalist tabloid Alarma! in …

This article examines questions of masculinity in Carlos Reygadas's film Batalla en el
cielo/Battle in Heaven. Using a comparative approach to address Reygadas's allusions to …