Affectual Erasure

Cynthia Margarita Tompkins is Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University and the author of Experimental Latin American Cinema: History and Aesthetics.

"This is an enormous contribution to film and cultural studies, due to its meticulously researched registry of film titles and filmmakers, primary and secondary source bibliography, direct citations from the films translated into English, important stills and basic biography of the filmmakers, carefully analysed within the era of production of the individual work. Especially valuable are the introductions to each era, which historicize the films within the cinema tradition of the time." — Bulletin of Spanish Studies

"…[an] ambitious, wide-ranging book." — CHOICE

"Cynthia Margarita Tompkins's book is the most comprehensive analysis of the cinematic representations of Argentinean Indigenous peoples ever written. Her writing is lucid, insightful, grounded in a thorough familiarity with the films, and aware of the most current theoretical debates in film/theory and cultural studies. The book will surely become a breakthrough in its field." — Santiago Juan-Navarro, author of Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia)