Introduction / Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Lisa Jarvinen -- El espectáculo : the culture of the revistas in Mexico City and Los Angeles (1900-40) / Jacqueline Avila -- Ramona in the city : Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the remaking of a mythic story / Desirée J. Garcia -- Please sing to me : the immigrant nostalgia that sparked the Mexican film industry / Viviana Garcia Besné and Alistair Tremps -- A mass market for Spanish-language films : Los Angeles, hybridity, and the emergence of Latino audiovisual media / Lisa Jarvinen -- Cantabria Films and the L.A. film market, 1938-1940 / Jan-Christopher Horak -- A cinema between Mexico and Hollywood : what we can learn from adaptations, remakes, dubs, talent swaps and other curiosities / Colin Gunckel -- On the Nuevo Teatro Máximo de la Raza : still thinking, feeling and speaking Spanish on and off screen / Nina Hoechtl.
Summary:
"Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles aims to flesh out some of the gaps between the generally accepted dichotomy between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism, in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the western hemisphere. The essays examine the multifaceted relationship between Latin American cinema and Los Angeles, analyzing Mexican-American moviegoing in LA; the city as a nodal point through which talent, films, and criticism traveled across the continent; and the ways in which the vantage point of Los Angeles prompts us to reconsider the transnational dimensions of national cinemas. Contributors are scholars and archivists working in Latin America and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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