Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). As a result, it reveals the existence of a continued cinematic conversation between Anglo and Latin America about a cluster of shared allegories representing the continent and its cultures.

Introduction: An Archive of Inter-American Affects 1. Cabaret America: Flying Down to Rio and the Construction of Latin American Identity as Performance 2. Dance Diplomacy: Film Musical Comedies as Models of Inter-American Integration 3. Hemispheric Romances at the Cinematic Contact Zone 4. The Ends of Magic: Post-Magical Realisms and the Affect of Discovery 5. Capturing a Moving Identity: The Affective Work of Latino Transnational Subjects Conclusion

Adrián Pérez Melgosa is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.