Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles [electronic resource] : origins to 1960 / edited by Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen.

"Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles aims to flesh out some of the gaps between the generally accepted dichotomy between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism, in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the weste...

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Other Authors: Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Editor)
Horak, Jan-Christopher (Editor)
Jarvinen, Lisa, 1969- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: origins to 1960
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction / Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen
  • El espectáculo : the culture of the revistas in Mexico City and Los Angeles (1900-40) / Jacqueline Avila
  • Ramona in the city : Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the remaking of a mythic story / Desirée J. Garcia
  • Please sing to me : the immigrant nostalgia that sparked the Mexican film industry / Viviana Garcia Besné and Alistair Tremps
  • A mass market for Spanish-language films : Los Angeles, hybridity, and the emergence of Latino audiovisual media / Lisa Jarvinen
  • Cantabria Films and the L.A. film market, 1938-1940 / Jan-Christopher Horak
  • A cinema between Mexico and Hollywood : what we can learn from adaptations, remakes, dubs, talent swaps and other curiosities / Colin Gunckel
  • On the Nuevo Teatro Máximo de la Raza : still thinking, feeling and speaking Spanish on and off screen / Nina Hoechtl.