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Published by Duke University PressBefore the 1980s, noteworthy Latin American women directors were few and far between: Mimí Derba (codirector with Enrique Rosas of La tigresa [The Tigress, Mexico, 1917]) during the silent period; Carmen Santos (Inconfidência Mineira [The Minas Conspiracy, Brazil, 1948]) and Matilde Landeta (La negra Angustias [Angustias the Black Woman, Mexico, 1950]) during the classical period; Carmen Toscano (Memorias de un mexicano [Memories of a Mexican, Mexico, 1950], made from footage taken and collected by her deceased father, Salvador Toscano) and Margot Benacerraf (Araya [Venezuela, 1959]) during the transitional 1950s; and Marta Rodríguez (codirector with Jorge Silva of Chircales [The Brickmakers, Colombia, 1972]) and Sara Gómez (De cierta manera [One Way or Another, Cuba, 1976]) during the militant phase of the New Latin American Cinema. Then quite suddenly, the 1980s witnessed what Paulo Antonio Paranaguá calls a "feminization of the profession" linked to profound changes in the social status of women, broadly speaking, and, in the case of cinema, to a prolif-

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Motherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941–1991: The T ransformation of Femininity on Screen, Isabel Arredondo (2013) Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 222 pp., ISBN: 9780786468041, p/bk, $45.00; eISBN: 9781476602387 Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age, Laura Isabel Serna (2014) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 317 pp., 46 illustrations, 3 maps, ISBN: 9780822356530, p/bk, $27.95 Humor in Latin American Cinema, Juana Suárez and Juan Poblete (eds) (2016) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, xi + 279 pp., ISBN: 9781137549457, h/bk, £63 Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History, Rob S tone and María Pilar Rodríguez (2015) London: I.B. Tauris, 249 pp., ISBN: 9781780769820, h/bk, £59.50 The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films, Charles Ramírez Berg (2015) Austin: University of Texas Press, 240 pp., ISBN: 9781477308059, p/bk, $24.95