Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building : : National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940 / / Naida García-Crespo.

Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Naida García...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Contexts for a National Cinema: Cultural, Political, and Economic Movements in Puerto Rico (1860-1952)
  • 2. Cinema Comes to Puerto Rico: Historical Uncertainties and Ambiguous Identities (1897-1909)
  • 3. Stateless Nationhood, Transnationalism, and the Difficulties of Assigning Nationality: Rafael Colorado in Puerto Rican Historiography (1912-1916)
  • 4. In the Company of the Elites: The Discourses and Practices of the Tropical Film Company (1916-1917)
  • 5. Perilous Paradise: American Assignment and Appropriation of "Puerto Ricanness" (1917-1925)
  • 6. Making the Nation Profitable: Industry-Centered Transnational Approaches to Filmmaking (1923-1940)
  • Conclusion: Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Stateless Nation Building
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author