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
