Mexico on main street : transnational film culture in Los Angeles before World War II - Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015)
Constructing Mexican Los Angeles: competing images of an immigrant population -- "Spectacles of high morality and culture": theatrical culture and aspirations -- Of Mexican community in the 1920s -- The audible and the invisible: the transition to sound and "de-Mexicanization" of Hollywood -- "Fashionable charros and chinas poblanas": Mexican cinema and the dilemma of the comedia ranchera -- "Now we have Mexican cinema?": navigating transnational mexicanidad in a moment of crisis -- Conclusion: Hola Mexico/hello Mexico.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: Mexican Americans in motion pictures; Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Electronic books