Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández is an associate professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of¿Mexico’s Ruins: Juan Garcia Ponce and the Writing of Modernity. Claudia Schaefer is the Rush Rhees Chair and¿a professor of Spanish, comparative literature, and film and media studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of several books, including¿Lens, Laboratory, Landscape: Observing Modern Spain and¿Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain. ¿ ¿