Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Foster, David William. Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Austin: U of Texas P, 2003. 186pp. ISBN 0-292-70537-9

As David William Foster indicated in his Preface, Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema is his fourth book on Spanish American and Brazilian films of the last quarter century. In the previous three he studied various aspects of the motion pictures from the major film-producing countries of the region: Contemporary Argentine Cinema (1994), Gender and Society in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (1999) and Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema (2001). In these books Foster approached at times questions of gender or of same-sex relations, but …