Mexico on Main Street
Subtitle: transnational film culture in Los Angeles before World War II
By: Colin Gunckel
Series: Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States; Latinidad
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780813570761; 9780813570754
Subjects: Mexican Americans in motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing Mexican Los Angeles : competing visions of an immigrant population; title: Spectacles of high morality and culture : theatrical culture and constructions of the Mexican community in the 1920s; title: The audible and the invisible : the transition to sound and de-Mexicanization of Hollywood; title: Fashionable charros and chinas poblanas : Mexican cinema and the dilemma of the comedia ranchera; title: Now we have Mexican cinema? : navigating transnational mexicanidad in a moment of crisis.