Amores Perros (2000) speaks to an international audience while never oversimplifying its local culture. This study of this film opens up that culture, revealing the film's relationship to television soap operas, pop music and contemporary debates about what it means to be Mexican.
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Myth and History in Transitions From Nondemocratic Rule.- Authorizing Reform By Uncovering the Past.- Leninist Mythology and Reform.- Assessing the Genesis of Stalinism.- Societal Conquest and the Decay of the Center.- Myth, History, and Separatism in the Periphery.- History and Myth in the Post-Soviet Space.