Mexico on Main Street : : Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II / / Colin Gunckel.
In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles's Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 31 photos, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Constructing Mexican Los Angeles: Competing Visions of an Immigrant Population
- 2. Spectacles of High Morality and Culture: Theatrical Culture and Constructions of the Mexican Community in the 1920s
- 3. The Audible and the Invisible: The Transition to Sound and the De-Mexicanization of Hollywood
- 4. Fashionable Charros and Chinas Poblanas: Mexican Cinema and the Dilemma of the Comedia Ranchera
- 5. Now We Have Mexican Cinema? Navigating Transnational Mexicanidad in a Moment of Crisis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author