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Informationen zum Autor JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK is the director of the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive and a professor for critical studies at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema . LISA JARVINEN is an associate professor of history at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Rise of Spanish-Language Film Making: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (Rutgers University Press). COLIN GUNCKEL is an associate professor of screen arts and cultures, American culture, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Historically, Los Angeles has been central to the international success of Latin American cinema and became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. This book examines the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema. Zusammenfassung Examines the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and explores the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen El espectáculo: The Culture of the revistas in Mexico City and Los Angeles (1900¿40), Jacqueline AvilaRamona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story, Desirée J. GarciaPlease Sing to Me: The Immigrant Nostalgia that Sparked the Mexican Film Industry, Viviana García Besné and Alistair TrempsA Mass Market for Spanish-language Films: Los Angeles, Hybridity, and the Emergence of Latino Audiovisual Media, Lisa JarvinenCantabria Films and the L.A. Film Market, 1938-1940, Jan-Christopher HorakA Cinema between Mexico and Hollywood: What We Can Learn from Adaptations, Remakes, Dubs, Talent Swaps and Other Curiosities, Colin GunckelOn the NUEVO TEATRO MÁXIMO DE LA RAZA : Still Thinking, Feeling and Speaking Spanish on and off Screen, Nina HoechtlNotes Bibliography Index ...
