Mexico on Main Street : Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II /

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In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles's Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city...

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Autor principal: Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture industry.
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Industrie > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Americains d'origine mexicaine au cinema.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
United States.
California > Los Angeles.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Constructing Mexican Los Angeles: competing images of an immigrant population
  • "Spectacles of high morality and culture": theatrical culture and aspirations
  • Of Mexican community in the 1920s
  • The audible and the invisible: the transition to sound and "de-Mexicanization" of Hollywood
  • "Fashionable charros and chinas poblanas": Mexican cinema and the dilemma of the comedia ranchera
  • "Now we have Mexican cinema?": navigating transnational mexicanidad in a moment of crisis
  • Conclusion: Hola Mexico/hello Mexico.

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