Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles : Origins to 1960 / Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, Lisa Jarvinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Avila, Jacqueline.

García Besné, Viviana.

Garcia, Desirée J.

Gunckel, Colin, Editor.

Hoechtl, Nina.

Horak, Jan-Christopher, Editor.

Jarvinen, Lisa, Editor.

Tremps, Alstair.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, Mexican--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures, Mexican.

Motion picture industry--Mexico--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.

Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 189 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps 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 western hemisphere.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Gunckel, Colin / Horak, Jan-Christopher / Jarvinen, Lisa

1. El Espectáculo: The Culture of the Revistas in Mexico City and Los Angeles, 1900-1940 / Avila, Jacqueline

2. Ramona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story / Garcia, Desirée J.

3. Please Sing to Me: The Immigrant Nostalgia That Sparked the Mexican Film Industry / García Besné, Viviana / Tremps, Alistair

4. A Mass Market for Spanish-Language Films: Los Angeles, Hybridity, and the Emergence of Latino Audiovisual Media / Jarvinen, Lisa

5. Cantabria Films and the LA Film Market, 1938-1940 / Horak, Jan-Christopher

6. A Cinema between Mexico and Hollywood: What We Can Learn from Adaptations, Remakes, Dubs, Talent Swaps, and Other Curiosities / Gunckel, Colin

7. On the Nuevo Teatro Máximo de la Raza: Still Thinking, Feeling, and Speaking Spanish On-and Offscreen / Hoechtl, Nina

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-9788-0128-9

OCLC:

1100903669