Geoffrey Kantaris is director of the Centre of Latin American Studies and senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Cambridge. He is also cultural studies editor of the Bulletin of Latin American Research. His research focuses on contemporary urban cinema from Latin America. Kantaris is author of the forthcoming book Latin American Cinema: The Urban Paradigm and the monograph The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women’s Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay, among other articles and book chapters.