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

By: Gunckel, Colin, 1975- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United StatesPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813570778 (e-book)Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mexico on main street : transnational film culture in Los Angeles before World War II.DDC classification: 791.43/65203678073 LOC classification: PN1995.9.M49 | G86 2015Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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