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Tamara Falicov
Tamara L. Falicov is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. She is also a core faculty member in the Center of Latin American Studies. Professor Falicov's specialty is the study of Latin American film industries, with particular focus on the cinemas of Argentina and Cuba. She is the author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (London: Wallflower Press, 2007), which won the CHOICE award for outstanding academic title in 2008, and is currently working on a book about Latin American film industries to be published with BFI/Palgrave. Her work also examines Spanish-Latin American co-productions, Roger Corman's co-productions in Argentina and the role of film festivals in bolstering Latin American film production and distribution. Her articles are published in journals Media, Culture and Society, Canadian Journal of Communication, Framework, The Americas, Film and History, Spectator and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, among others.