- Features contributions from international critics, historians, and scholars, along with interviews with acclaimed Latin American film directors
- Includes essays on the Latin American film industry, as well as the interactions between TV and documentary production with feature film culture
- Covers several up-and-coming regions of film activity such as nations in Central America
- Offers novel insights into Latin American cinema based on new methodologies, such as the quantitative approach, and essays contributed by practitioners as well as theorists