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Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II
Colin Gunckel
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In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s Spanish-language newspapers, Colin Gunckel vividly demonstrates how this immigrant community pioneered a practice of transnational media convergence, consuming films from Hollywood and Mexico, while also producing fan publications, fiction, criticism, music, and live theatrical events. Mexico on Main Street locates this film culture at the center of a series of key debates concerning national ... Read more
In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s Spanish-language newspapers, Colin Gunckel vividly demonstrates how this immigrant community pioneered a practice of transnational media convergence, consuming films from Hollywood and Mexico, while also producing fan publications, fiction, criticism, music, and live theatrical events. Mexico on Main Street locates this film culture at the center of a series of key debates concerning national ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813570761
SKU
V9780813570761
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About Colin Gunckel
COLIN GUNCKEL is an assistant professor of screen arts and cultures, American culture, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He serves as associate editor of the A Ver: Revisioning Art History series.
Reviews for Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II
"A rich and impressive study of how Mexican film culture in Los Angeles responded to and shaped film industries of both the U.S. and Mexico."
Jacqueline Stewart
author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
"This provocative book should inspire many other works on the topic."
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"This provocative book should inspire ... Read more
Jacqueline Stewart
author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
"This provocative book should inspire many other works on the topic."
CHOICE
"This provocative book should inspire ... Read more