PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

BOOKS:
Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, third, revised edition (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2005)

Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-1988, revised edition
(Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, University of California Press,
1989)

Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-1980, (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1982)

Sandia and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, SAND99-1482 (Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1999)

ARTICLES:
“ Poor Mexican Cinema, So Far From Cahiers du Cinema and so Close to Latino U.S.A.”, FILM-HISTORIA Online, vol. XIII, no. 3 (2003)

Cut from Anglophilia to Anglophobia: Hollywood’s Changing
Perceptions of the British,” FILM-HISTORIA Online, vol. XI, no.1 (2001)

Sandia Turns 50,” New Mexico Business Journal, Vol. 23, Issue 4
(May/June 1999): TVC-7-TVC-10

Co-author Paul McConnell, “ ‘We Crash, Burn, and Crush’: A History of
Packaging at Sandia National Laboratories, 1978-1997,” Proceedings:
The 12th International Conference on the Packaging and Transportation
of Radioactive Materials, May 10-15, 1998, Paris, France, vol. 4 (French Ministries of Industry and Environment: Paris, 1998): 1616-23

“ Bridging the Cold War and the Twenty-First Century: Chronicling the
History of Sandia National Laboratories.” Journal of Government
Communication, vol. 25, no. 4 (1998): 321-330

“ Motion Pictures: 1960-96,” in Michael S. Werner, ed., Encyclopedia of
Mexico, vol. II (Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,
1997): 970-72

“ The Image of Ancient Rome in the Cinema.” FILM-HISTORIA (Barcelona)
vol. VII, no. 3 (1997): 221-243

"Y AHORA PARA ALGO COMPLETAMENTE DIFERENTE: Observations
on Cinematic Humor in Spain, Mexico, and the United States," CINE-
LIT II: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction, (Corvallis and Portland:
Portland State University, Oregon State University, and Reed College,
1995)

"México y su revolución vistos por Hollywood," Historia y Vida
(Barcelona) (April 1994), pp. 85-89

"Cinema, Spanish," in Robert Kern, ed., Historical Dictionary of Modern
Spain, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)

"The Odyssey of Spanish Cinema," New Orleans Review, vol. 14, no. 1
(Spring 1987), pp. 7-20

"Spain's Cinema of 'The Autonomies,'" New Orleans Review (Loyola
University), vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer 1986), pp. 32-42

"Introduction," "Feminine Images in Mexican Cinema: The Family
Melodrama; Sara García, 'The Mother of Mexico'; and the Prostitute,"
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 4 (1985), pp. 228-235

"Mexican Cinema in the 1970s," in Leonard Folgarait, ed., Mexican Art
of the 1970s, (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University, Center for Latin
American and Iberian Studies, 1984), pp. 37-44

"Alejandro Galindo: Pioneer Mexican Filmmaker," Journal of Popular
Culture, vol. 18, no. 1 (Summer 1984), pp. 101-112

" Mexican Films: Sources for the Study of Social History," Pacific
Council of Latin American Studies Proceedings, vol. 6 (1977-1979),
pp. 205-215

" Bernardo de Gálvez and the American Revolution," Mankind, vol. 4,
no. 8, August 1974, pp. 50-57

PRESENTATIONS:
“ A View from the Balcón: Mexican Cinema,” The Oasis Institute,
Albuquerque, Feb. 18 and 25, 2005

“ Soy puro mexicano: Reconciling Nationalism and Support for the US in Mexican Films of the 1940s,” Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies, Mobile, Alabama, March 1-3, 2002

Albuquerque Museum, coordinator and presenter for program of eight
Mexican films, “Aztlan Cinema Series,” February-April, 2002

Commentator, Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies, Veracruz, Mexico, March 1-3, 2000

“ Jumpcutting Between the Old and New Worlds: Cinematic Forays in
Spain and Latin America,” University of Oklahoma, April 18,
1997

“ El contexto histórico de la obra cinematográfica de Luis García
Berlanga,” presented at Mid-America Conference on Hispanic
Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 12-14, 1995

"El humorismo cinematográfico en su proyección desde España a
Hollywood, pasando por Inglaterra y Méjico," at the Spanish
Resource Center, Division of Continuing Education, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, February 22, 1995

"Emilio 'El Indio' Fernández and Enamorada", at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville TN, November 11, 1991

" Doña Bárbara and Enamorada," at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville TN, November 10, 1989

"Emilio 'el Indio' Fernández, An Overview of his Life and Work,"
at UNAM San Antonio Branch, April 30, 1987, and Guadalupe
Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, May 1, 1987

" The Elusive Text: Research on Latin American Cinema and its
Implications for Area Specialists," Workshop at XII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Albuquerque, NM, April 20, 1985

"Mexican Cinema: A Humanistic Assessment," at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, July 9, 1984

" The Mexican Cinema, 1896-1976: An Overview," at the University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa, March 24, 1980

OTHER:
Member of Advisory Board for Santa Fe International Film Festival,
2000 and programmer, 2001

Consultant for Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Accompanied film curator to Mexico City, January 8-14,
1990, to screen films and confer with director and other
personnel of Mexican Film Institute

Consultant for Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX. Selected
and wrote film notes for film program, "Mexican Cinema:
Mirror of a Changing Society," November 19-December 17,
1989

Coordinated and participated in a week-long film retrospective
organized by faculty from the University of Barcelona and
presented at the University of New Mexico, "An Historical
Approach to Spanish Cinema, 1931-1975," September 14-18,
1987

GRANTS:
Travel grant from United States-Spanish Joint Committee for
Educational and Cultural Cooperation to research Spanish
cinema at archives in Madrid and Barcelona, July-August 1987

Travel grant from United States-Spanish Joint Committee for
Educational and Cultural Cooperation to research Spanish
cinema at archives in Madrid and Barcelona, June-July 1985

COURSES:
“ Mexican Cinema,” University of New Mexico, spring, 2005

“ Ancient Rome in the Cinema,” University of New Mexico, fall 2004

“ Mexican Cinema,” University of New Mexico, summer 2004

“ Ancient Rome in the Cinema,” University of New Mexico, spring 2004

“ Images of Spain in Hollywood Movies,” University of Salamanca,
November 2003

“ Mexican Cinema,” University of New Mexico, summer 2003

“ Mexican Cinema,” University of New Mexico, summer 2002

“Mexican Cinema,” College of Santa Fe, fall 2001

“ Mexican Cinema,” University of New Mexico, summer 2001

“ Ancient Rome in the Cinema,” University of New Mexico, spring 2001

Cinema of Spain,” University of New Mexico, 1995-1999

“Cultural, Ideological, and Musical Perceptions in Cinema,”
University of Salamanca, May1999

" An Introduction to Latin American Cinema," University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, 1990-1994

“ Spain and the Americas: Mutual Cinematic Perceptions,” June 8-July
15, 1998. Course for the University of New Mexico’s “Arts in the
Americas” summer program. Invited speakers were filmmakers
Humberto Solás (Cuba), Nicolás Echevarría (Mexico) and Dr. Sergio
Alegre from the University of Barcelona, Spain

“ The New Spanish Cinema,” University of Barcelona, July 21-August 1,
1997: Organized seminar for 9 participants from the United States and
Taiwan. . Taught course in conjunction with José M. Caparrós Lera,
Rafael de España, and Sergio Alegre of the University of Barcelona.
Invited speakers were filmmakers Juan Antonio Bardem, Josep María
Forn, Rosa Vergés, Francesc Rovira Beleta, and scholar and author
Román Gubern

" Cinema of Spain," University of Barcelona, July 26-August 6,
1993: organized seminar for 13 participants from the United
States and Japan. Taught course in conjunction with
José M. Caparrós Lera and Rafael de España of the University
of Barcelona. Invited speakers were filmmakers Josep
María Forn and Rosa Vergés

TRANSLATIONS:
José María Caparrós Lera and Rafael de España Renedo, A Short
History of Spanish Cinema, 1931-1975 (Barcelona: University
of Barcelona, 1987), catalogue for film retrospective, "An
Historical Approach to Spanish Cinema, 1931-1975,"
presented at the University of New Mexico and the University
of Texas at Austin, September 1987

Greg Donohoe, "Control sensorio de un brazo autómata para
mantenimiento remoto de un reactor nuclear," presented at
"Electro-84," Sexto Seminario de Ingeniería Electrónica,
Centro de Graduados del Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua,
Ciudad Chihuahua, Chih., Mexico, November 1984

John Jackson, Alternativas de Energía: Un Sumario del
Programa de Sandía, SAND80-1881 (Albuquerque, NM: Sandia
National Laboratories, 1982)

Miguel Ríos, Una Evaluación Económica Sencilla y
Experimentos de Aplicaciones para Sistemas Fotovoltaicos en
Sitios Remotos, SAND80-0749 (Albuquerque, NM: Sandia
National Laboratories, 1981)

Miguel Ríos, El Programa Fotovoltaico Nacional de los Estados
Unidos y Experimentos de Aplicaciones en el Sector
Intermedio, SAND80-0587 (Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National
Laboratories, 1981)

(Cotranslator) Beatriz Reyes Nevares, The Mexican Cinema:
Interviews with Thirteen Directors (Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, 1976)

BOOK REVIEWS:
"Fitzroy Ambursely and Robin Cohen, eds. Crisis in the Caribbean, "
South Eastern Latin Americanist, vol. 28, no. 3 (December 1984),
pp. 45-47

"Marvin Alisky, Latin American Media: Guidance and Censorship," South
Eastern Latin Americanist, vol. 26, no. 4 (March 1983), pp. 42-43

"Maurice Halperin, The Taming of Fidel Castro," South Eastern Latin
Americanist, vol. 26, no. 2 (September 1982), pp. 38-40

"Pablo González Casanova and Enrique Florestano, eds., México, hoy,"
Southeastern Latin Americanist," vol. 23, no. 4 (March 1980),
pp. 16- 17

"Sergio Zermeño, México: Una democracia utópica el movimiento
estudiantil del 68," South Eastern Latin Americanist, vol. 23, no. 3
(March 1979), pp. 22-23