The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A New Cinema for a New Century
Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List

Part 1. Postwar and Memory

Chapter 1. “How Many Deaths?”: Official Silence, Subversive Memory, and Death’s Performativity in Abner Benaim’s Documentary Film Invasión (2014)
Jared List

Chapter 2. Illuminating from the Darkness: Transitional Justice, Testimonies and Archive in Salvadoran Postwar Documentary (2011–2018)
Lilia García Torres

Chapter 3. Memories and Critical History: Documenting the Past in Nicaragua and El Salvador
Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo

Chapter 4. Palabras mágicas and Heredera del viento: Two Diagnoses of the Sandinista Revolution’s Decay
Tomás Arce Mairena

Part 2. Migration, Movement, and Place

Chapter 5. Borders, Body, and Violence: The Representation of the Central American Migrant in Contemporary Cinema
María Lourdes Cortés

Chapter 6. Migrant Credence in Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie
Esteban E. Loustaunau

Chapter 7. Longing for Missing Memories: Journeys of “Return” and Postmemory in Children of the Diaspora, by Jennifer A. Cárcamo (2013)
Patricia Arroyo Calderón

Part 3. Re/presenting the Nation, Counter Cinema, and Popular Culture

Chapter 8. Panamanian Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Panama Canal Stories
Carolina Sanabria, translated by Carla Ros

Chapter 9. Costa Rican Exceptionalism: Nostalgia, Costumbrismo, and Extreme Patriotism in Maikol Yordan de viaje perdido
Liz Harvey-Kattou

Chapter 10. The Games We Play: Forging and Contesting National Identities in Central American Sports Films
Mauricio Espinoza

Chapter 11. Toward a Central American Counter Cinema: The Films of Tatiana Huezo and Julio Hernández Cordón
Júlia González de Canales Carcereny

Part 4. The Oppositional Lens: Minorities and Gender Issues

Chapter 12. Tangible Afro-Indigenous Heritage: Land and Sea in Garifuna in Peril
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar

Chapter 13. “No que muy machito pues?” Alternate Masculinities in Twenty-First-Century Guatemalan Cinema
Arno Jacob Argueta

Chapter 14. Film and Gender in Central America: Five Voices
Daniela Granja Núñez; interviews by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List; translated by Mauricio Espinoza, Jared List, and Ana Pérez Méndez

Central American Filmography: 2000–2021
María Lourdes Cortés, Mauricio Espinoza, and Jared List

List of Contributors

Index