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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gunckel, Colin, 1975- (Author)
Format:	Manuscript
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.

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 México/hello Mexico.