One of the most recent titles we have indexed at Southwest Humanities is Nicolas Poppe’s book Alton’s Paradox: Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2021). In this original study, Poppe (an Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College) argues “that foreign labor was pivotal to the rise of national film industries. In tracking this paradox from Hollywood to Mexico to Argentina and beyond, Poppe reconsiders a series of notions inextricably tied to traditional film historiography, including authorship, (dis)continuation, intermediality, labor, National Cinema, and transnationalism.” Find out more about this book at the publisher’s website, here.