General

• SALAM - Ressources for locating and evaluating Latin American Videos - http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/LatinAmericanVideos.htm - Thorough overview of resources, compiled by Cornell University Library: books, periodicals, associations, websites, databases, etc. Listed in general terms and by country.
• Latin American Video Archives - http://www.lavavideo.org/ - "The Place to Locate and Purchase Latin American & U.S. Latino Made Film and Video. The Latin American Video Archives has been created with support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, and National Video Resources to facilitate the distribution of Latin American and U.S. Latino films and video in the United States."
• Film in Latin America: A Selective Bibliography, 1999 , Compiled by Marianne Siegmund - "This page provides links to a variety of web sites on Latin American cinema. We include the Caribbean in our definition of Latin America and cinema includes the formats of both film and video. Coverage also includes U.S. Latino cinema." Compiled by the University of Georgia Libraries.
• Hollywood Inc, Latin America - http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata155.htm  - Site by Zona Latina on the popularity of Hollywood films in Latin America, and in addition a large variety of Latin American cinema links.“Looking at the WorldwideBoxOffice.com ranking of all-time movie box office receipts, it is clear that the global film market is dominated by products made in Hollywood, USA.  Why are Hollywood products so popular?  In his book,  Scott Robert Olson proposes "the United States' competitive advantage in the creation and global distribution of popular taste is due to a unique mix of cultural conditions that are conducive to the creation of "transparent" texts --- narratives whose inherent polysemy encourage diverse populations to read them as though they are indigenous ... these narratives have meaning to so many different cultures because they allow viewers in those cultures to project their own values, archetypes, and tropes into the movie or television program, thus enabling the import to function as though it were an indigenous product.”
• The Economic condition of cinema in Latin America by Michael Chanan - hhttp://www.mchanan.dial.pipex.com/chanan%20cv.pdf  - Web Articles.
• Latin American Cinema in the 90th by Michael Chanan - http://www.tau.ac.il/eial/IX_1/chanan.html - Web articles.
• Latin-America Cinemateca of Los Angeles -LACLA Ressources - http://www.lacla.org/resources.html" Portail : Welcome to LACLA's online portal to Latin-American cinema!"
• University of Minnesota Morris Latin American Art and Entertainment Page - http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~ummlaasa/artforms.html
• Recent Colombian Cinema comes to Boston, MFA - . http://www-tech.mit.edu/V110/N29/mfa.29a.html

Specific Countries:

• Argentine Cinema History - http://www.surdelsur.com/cine/cinein/indexingles.html - Gives an overview of the history of Argentine cinema, from 1896 to the present day.
• Historia y critica del cine espanol - http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/LGB/enlaces_art.shtml (Contains some articles also on Latin American cinema)
• The Film Industry in Brazil and Argentina - http://www.history.pdx.edu/hdwp/economy/film_ec.html
• Cine Brazil Movie Database - http://cinemabrasil.org.br/indexen.html  - Database containing over 500 Brazilian feature films. Site of the Brazilian Ministery of Culture that gives information on contemporary Brazilian films, covering both the art and business of film making, with a few side steps into history. Available in English, French or Portugese.
• Breve Historia del Cine Chilano - http://www.buscacine.com/html/gp17.html - Short history of Chilean cinema. Website in Spanish
• Cine Chilano - http://cinenacional.blogspot.com/ 
• Cine Argentino - http://www.surdelsur.com/cine/cinein/ - Historia del cine en Argentina.
• Cine mexicano - http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/libros/historia_doc.html - Historia documental del cine mexicano.
• El Cinematógrafo en la Provincia de Jaén - http://victorian.fortunecity.com/crescent/648/ - "100 años de cine en la provincia de Jaén. Investigación acerca de la llegada del cinematógrafo a la provincia de Jaén desde 1898. Noticias del acontecimiento en los municipios jienenses."
• Historia del Cine - http://www.geocities.com/m_raez/historia_del_cine.html - " Extenso artículo sobre la evolución de la cinematografía".
•  Potex82 - http://www.geocities.com/potex82/ - Información histórica sobre el cine en España.
•  Cine Chileno - http://html.rincondelvago.com/cine-chileno_1.html - Breve historia del cine chileno.  
• List of Colombian films - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Colombia
• Cinema of Cuba - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Cuba
• Annuaire des sites internet : Guide Cuba - http://www.smartadserver.com/83118/show2_0.asp?83118;3490;8686746726351168995;8928844552;S 

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