"By bringing many of López's essays together into one carefully edited volume, Laura Podalsky and Dolores Tierney are not only paying tribute to someone they rightfully call one of the foremost scholars of Latin American cinema; they are also making it easier for young scholars to engage with a remarkable body of work that fruitfully combines breadth with depth, theory with close readings, and transnationalism with comparativism, all from a continental perspective." — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)"Ana M. López's Essays emerges as an indispensable navigational tool for scholars embarking on the terrain of Latin-American Cinema Studies. The essays within exhibit a notable degree of theoretical and analytical rigour, affirming the author's ability to formulate enquiries that paved the way for innovative and fruitful avenues of scholarly investigation. Beyond serving as a retrospective analysis of López's academic and professional trajectory, which remains both dynamic and provocative, the anthology of essays functions as a fundamental historical document. It proves instrumental in comprehending the genesis and consolidation of the broader field of Latin-American Cinema Studies and its extensions into specific geographical and thematic domains." — Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies"Ana López's work always provided a clear compass to the field, its debates, and its ideas. Her articles often result in long-living lines of inquiry and even entire subfields. All of us working in Latin American film studies are indebted to Ana's career and dedication." — from the foreword by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado"To state that Latin American film and media studies would not be the same without Ana López is no exaggeration. López not only helped carve out space in a historically Eurocentric discipline for consideration of Latin American and Latino/a/x cinema and film cultures but also made them an essential part of the conversation. While she is an academic legend, her work has never been static but has always evolved, taking us in new directions as we attempt to keep pace with her brilliance." — Rielle Navitski, author of Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and Brazil
