Professor Paul A. Schroeder Rodriguez

• R. John Cooper '64 Presidential Teaching Professor of Spanish Latinx and Latin American Studies, Spanish, Film and Media Studies, Amherst College
• Advisory Board Member

Paul's contributions to the field include a book on Cuba's foremost film director (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker. New York: Routledge, 2002), and the first comprehensive history of Latin American narrative cinema (Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History. University of California Press, 2016; Una historia comparada del cine latinoamericano. Trans. Juana Suárez, Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2020.)  

Since finishing this project, he has published a short history of Latinx cinema plus several videoessays, including one on the Brazilian film Limite (1929) and another on the Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment (1968).  He also recently co-translated a book on Casa Pueblo, an extraordinary community-based organization in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Paul's current research centers on community-based filmmaking in Abiayala.