Examines cinematographic history in the Americas (U.S. Latinx, Central, South America, and the Caribbean) from a hemispheric perspective. Analyzes moving images of conquest, modernity, neoliberalism in horror, fantasy, and realism. Films critically engage race, class, sexuality, and gender. From a cinematographic (technical), genre, and sociohistorical perspective—we understand how history, memory, and cultural contestation; colonialism, racism, and patriarchy; dictatorship, revolution, and democratization; and nationalism, economic dependency, globalization, criminalization, and migration change in film over time. Course instruction is conducted entirely in English with subtitles for films in all languages.