Anita Maris Boggs: Historical Invisibility and Gender in the History of Sponsored and Educational Film

Laura Isabel Serna is assistant professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. She is the author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (Duke University Press, 2014). She has published essays on border cinema, silent film in Latin America, and stardom and race in journals such as Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, The Americas, and Film History. Currently she is working on a monograph about film distribution and production in the Caribbean during the silent era, including the production and distribution of “useful” films.