Claudia Schaefer is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester and the author of Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture and Textured Lives: Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico.

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Acknowledgements

1. At the Millennium: Boredom Theory and Middle-Class Desires

2. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's La tarea: Not Your Average Afterschool Special

3. How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Danzón and the Myth of Getting Away from It All

4. Amores perros: Throwing Politics to the Dogs

5. Still Just a Dress Rehearsal?: From Archibaldo de la Cruz to Penélope Cruz

6. The Demonic Side of Modernity: Waiting for Satan at the Movies

7. A Few Last Words: Waiting in the Anteroom of the Twenty-First Century

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