Preface

Summary

This book is published in the new series Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures, edited by Thea Pitman and Stephanie Dennison, scholars known for their pioneering publications on Latin American digital culture and transnational cinema (Dennison, Contemporary Hispanic Cinema; Pitman, Latin American Identity). I am most grateful to professors Pitman and Dennison for their valuable initiative, and to the anonymous readers for their acute comments. I thank Dr. Megan Milan, commissioning editor at Tamesis, for her exceptional kindness and efficiency in the whole production process. Finally, I thank Patricia Arriaga Jordán, executive producer of Canal Once's Malinche, for permission to use an image from her miniseries on the cover of this book. One note is sadly necessary: although I refer briefly in the third and the final chapters to COVID-19, the rest of the book was written before the pandemic so gravely affected the audiovisual scene, and indeed life in general, in Mexico.