Mexico on Main Street - Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II

Informationen zum Autor COLIN GUNCKEL is an assistant professor of screen arts and cultures, American culture, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He serves as associate editor of the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series.  Klappentext Mexico on Main Street takes us inside a forgotten world: the film culture that thrived within Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community in the early decades of the twentieth-century. Drawing from rare archives, Colin Gunckel demonstrates how these immigrants not only consumed Hollywood and Mexican films, but also produced fan publications, fiction, criticism, music, and live theatrical events. This book demonstrates how a site-specific study of cultural and ethnic issues challenges our existing conceptions of U.S. film history, Mexican cinema, and the history of Los Angeles.   Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1    Constructing Mexican Los Angeles: Competing Images of an Immigrant Population2   “Spectacles of High Morality and Culture”: Theatrical Culture and Aspirations of Mexican Community in the 1920s3   The Audible and the Invisible: The Transition to Sound and “De-Mexicanization” of Hollywood4   “Fashionable Charros and Chinas Poblanas”: Mexican Cinema and the Dilemma of the Comedia Ranchera5   “Now We Have Mexican Cinema”?: Navigating Transnational Mexicanidad in a Moment of CrisisConclusion: Hola México/Hello MexicoNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Colin Gunckel
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780813570761
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-7076-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States; Latinidad:Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries