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My essay explores the vampire cinema of Hollywood and Mexico. In particular, I trace the relationship between Universal Pictures as the progenitor of horror during the Great Depression and Cinematográfica ABSA's "mexploitation" practices. The latter resulted in the first vampire film in Latin America--"El vampiro" (1957). Rather than strengthening separatist national cinemas, the unintended consequences of genre film production make this a case of inter-American scope.

Just sixteen years after the signing of the Constitution in 1787, the Louisiana Purchase marks the passage of the United States from postcolonial republic to emerging empire. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson from 1803, Andrew Jackson, then a colonel in the Tennessee militia, celebrates this acquisition while implying U.S. ownership of an even grander empire: "all the western Hemisphere rejoices at the Joyful news of the Cession of Louisiana—an event which places the peace happiness and liberty of our country on a permanent basis, an event which generations yet unborn in each revolving year will hail the day and with it the causes that gave it birth." By merging the agency of the European colonies, Native Americans, and Africans into a single exultation, Jackson performs one of the first acts of political ventriloquism in the Americas