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

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Main Author: Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Latinidad.
Subjects:
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.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
California > Los Angeles.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing Mexican Los Angeles: competing visions 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 México/hello Mexico.

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