Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
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.
Series:
Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
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