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Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building : National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940 /

"National Sentiments, Transnational Realities focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring my work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: García-Crespo, Naida, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Contexts for a National Cinema: Cultural, Political, and Economic Movements in Puerto Rico (1860-1951)
  • Late Spanish Colonialism through 1898
  • Circumstances and Consequences of the U.S. Invasion
  • Initial US. Congressional Rule and the Formation of Puerto Rican Identity
  • Puerto Rican Conceptions of the Nation from 1930 Onward
  • 2. Cinema Comes to Puerto Rico: Historical Uncertainties and Ambiguous Identities (1897-1909)
  • Film Exhibition in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico
  • Rumors of War Footage
  • Representing U.S. Colonial Puerto Rico
  • 3. Stateless Nationhood, Transnationalism, and the Difficulties of Assigning Nationality: Rafael Colorado in Puerto Rican Historiography (1912-1916)
  • Rafael Colorado, Film Exhibition, and the Transnational Circulation of Cultural Subjects
  • Rafael Colorado as Cinematic Producer: Negotiating the Local and the Global
  • Citizenship in a Stateless Nation: Constructing the Puerto Rican Subject
  • 4. In the Company of the Elites: The Discourses and Practices of the Tropical Film Company (1916-1917)
  • Inconsistencies in the Received Histories of the Tropical Film Company
  • The Educational/Cultural Project of the Tropical Film Company
  • The Tropical Film Company's Commercial Aims
  • The End of the Beginning: The Tropical Film Company's Demise and Legacy
  • 5. Perilous Paradise: American Assignment and Appropriation of "Puerto Ricanness" (1917-1915)
  • From Big Stick to Good Neighbor: Puerto Rico as Test Site for American Foreign Policy
  • Fictional Puerto Rico and Colonial Angst
  • Puerto Rico's Commercial Production Model
  • U.S. Cinema Falls in Love with the Tropics
  • The MacManus/Pathe Productions
  • Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount Comes to the Island
  • Beyond Fiction: Other Aspects of the Puerto Rican Film Industry in the 1910s
  • 6. Making the Nation Profitable: Industry-Centered Transnational Approaches to Filmmaking (1923-1940)
  • The Film Enthusiast: The Career of Juan E. Viguie Cajas
  • Romance tropical: Remaking the Dream
  • The Film Impresario: The Career of Rafael Ramos Cobian
  • Mis dos amores: The Union of Hollywood and Latin America
  • Los hijos mandan: The Separation of Hollywood and Latin America
  • The End of an Era: The Local Government as Producer.