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Yet his problem, King freely admits, over and over again, with the academic study of Latin American cinema is that even he finds his scholarship focusing on the nations in isolation, and on nations that have become international focal points, like Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, whose political situations have generated international attention and have received either attention at international festivals or conferences for reasons other than art. Perhaps individuals from less publicized nations and cultural traditions will have to write their own books, begin their own festivals to create...

This book is a valuable overview to a neglected subject area, but more still needs to be written to present a theoretical overview that does justice to the whole of the region, and enables the region's artists to be rendered in their own context, not merely as seen through a Western gaze.

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