Popular Cosmopolitanism: Cinematic Genre and The Mediation of Modernity in 20th-Century Mexico

Latin American cinemas, like many other film traditions of the Global South, are often valued and studied as "national" cinemas, machines of production of identity and cultural specificity. 

Join us for a facinating exploration of the specific forms of cinema emergent in the process of Mexican capitalist modernization.

This lecture is co-sponsored by Global Studies