Celluloid Pueblo Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest / Jennifer L. Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Jennifer L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actualities (Motion pictures)--United States--History--20th century.

Actualities (Motion pictures).

Documentary films--United States--History--20th century.

Documentary films.

Mexican-American Border Region--In motion pictures.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Southwest, New--In motion pictures.

Southwest, New.

Arizona--In motion pictures.

Arizona.

Western Ways Features Service--History--20th century.

Western Ways Features Service.

Herbert, Lucile, 1901-1985.

Herbert, Charles W., 1896-1976.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Summary:

Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest. Founded by Charles and Lucile Herbert in 1936, the Western Ways Features film service documented the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona, the Southwest, and northern Mexico for thirty years. Active during a period of profound growth and transformation, the Herberts created a dynamic visual record of the region; their archival films now serve as a time capsule of the Sunbelt in the mid-20th century. Chapters examine the Herberts' work on the first sound films in the Borderlands, Western Ways' subsequent rise to prominence in the promotion of the Southwest, and the filmic representation of Native and Mexican lifeways, Anglo ranching and leisure, Mexican missions and tourism, and the Borderlands postwar prosperity and progressivism. The story of Western Ways closely follows the boom and bust arc of the midcentury Southwest and its constantly evolving representations of an exotic but safe and domesticated frontier. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: Adventures in the archives; or, bringing film back to light

Acknowledgments

Establishing shots: Southwest borderlands as spectacle

Sights and sounds: Fox Movietone visits Arizona in 1929

Missions and Mexico

Framing race in the Arizona borderlands

From silver screen to small screen

Epilogue: fade to black

Appendix: complete Herbert filmography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3453-5

OCLC:

956389021