Making Cinelandia : American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age /

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In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate the country's cinemas, many of Mexico's cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui Invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In Making Cinelandia, Laura Isabel Serna contends that Hollywoo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Serna, Laura Isabel, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures, Mexican.
Motion pictures, American.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema americain > Mexique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Mexique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mexicains au cinema.
Cinema mexicain > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Motion pictures, American > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Mexico > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures, Mexican > History > 20th century.
Mexico.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Yanqui invasion
  • U.S. motion picture companies go South of the border
  • American movies, Mexican modernity: the cinema as a national space
  • In Lola's house: fan discourse in the making of Mexican film culture
  • Border crossings
  • La virgen and La Pelona: film culture, border crossing, and the modern Mexican woman
  • Denigrating pictures: censorship and the politics of U.S. film in greater Mexico
  • Al cine: Mexican migrants go to the movies.

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