Mexico on main street : transnational film culture in Los Angeles before World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.