Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A new cinema for a new century / Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List
  • Post-war and memory. "How many deaths?" : official silence, subversive memory, and death's performativity in Abner Benaim's documentary film Invasión (2014) / Jared List
  • Illuminating from the darkness : transitional justice, testimonies and archive in Salvadoran postwar documentary (2011-2018) / Lilia García Torres
  • Memories and critical history : documenting the past in Nicaragua and El Salvador / Juan Pablo Gómez Lacayo
  • Palabras mágicas and Heredera del viento : two diagnoses of the Sandinista Revolution's decay / Tomás Arce Mairena
  • Migration, movement, and place. Borders, body and violence : the representation of the Central American migrant in contemporary cinema / María Lourdes Cortés
  • Migrant credence in Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie / Esteban E. Loustaunau
  • Longing for missing memories : journeys of "return" and postmemory in children of the diaspora, by Jennifer A. Círcamo (2013) / Patricia Arroyo Calderón
  • Re/presenting the nation, counter cinema, and popular culture. Panamanian Cinema in the twenty-first century : Panama Canal stories / Carolina Sanabria, translated by Carla Ros
  • Costa Rican exceptionalism : nostalgia, Costumbrismo, and extreme patriotism in Maikol Yordan de viaje perdido (Miguel Gómez, 2014) / Liz Harvey-Kattou
  • The games we play : forging and contesting national identities in Central American sports films / Mauricio Espinoza
  • Toward a Central American counter cinema : the films of Tatiana Huezo and Julio Hernández Cordón / Júlia González de Canales Carcereny
  • The oppositional lens : minorities and gender issues. Tangible Afro-Indigenous heritage : land and sea in Garifuna in peril / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
  • "No que muy machito pues" : alternate masculinities in twenty-first century Guatemalan cinema / Arno Jacob Argueta
  • 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.