Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, Lisa Jarvinen (Hg.): Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960
Title | Colin Gunckel, Jan-Christopher Horak, Lisa Jarvinen (Hg.): Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Leoni Velten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
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Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles
Title | Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Gunckel |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2019-02-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1978801262 |
Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps 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.
Hollywood Goes Latin
Title | Hollywood Goes Latin PDF eBook |
Author | María Elena de las Carreras |
Publisher | FIAF |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 2960029682 |
In the 1920s, Los Angeles enjoyed a buoyant homegrown Spanish-language culture comprised of local and itinerant stock companies that produced zarzuelas, stage plays, and variety acts. After the introduction of sound films, Spanish-language cinema thrived in the city’s downtown theatres, screening throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in venues such as the Teatro Eléctrico, the California, the Roosevelt, the Mason, the Azteca, the Million Dollar, and the Mayan Theater, among others. With the emergence and growth of Mexican and Argentine sound cinema in the early to mid-1930s, downtown Los Angeles quickly became the undisputed capital of Latin American cinema culture in the United States. Meanwhile, the advent of talkies resulted in the Hollywood studios hiring local and international talent from Latin America and Spain for the production of films in Spanish. Parallel with these productions, a series of Spanish-language films were financed by independent producers. As a result, Los Angeles can be viewed as the most important hub in the United States for the production, distribution, and exhibition of films made in Spanish for Latin American audiences. In April 2017, the International Federation of Film Archives organized a symposium, "Hollywood Goes Latin: Spanish-Language Cinema in Los Angeles," which brought together scholars and film archivists from all of Latin America, Spain, and the United States to discuss the many issues surrounding the creation of Hollywood’s "Cine Hispano." The papers presented in this two-day symposium are collected and revised here. This is a joint publication of FIAF and UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Mexico on Main Street
Title | Mexico on Main Street PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Gunckel |
Publisher | Latinidad: Transnational Cultu |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813570761 |
Mexico on Main Street takes us inside a forgotten world: the film culture that thrived within Los Angeles's Mexican immigrant community in the early decades of the twentieth-century. Drawing from rare archives, Colin Gunckel demonstrates how these immigrants not only consumed Hollywood and Mexican films, but also produced fan publications, fiction, criticism, music, and live theatrical events. This book demonstrates how a site-specific study of cultural and ethnic issues challenges our existing conceptions of U.S. film history, Mexican cinema, and the history of Los Angeles.
Based on a True Story
Title | Based on a True Story PDF eBook |
Author | Donald F. Stevens |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 1998-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 058534826X |
Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies, while the rest of the book consists of essays that explore the best feature films on Latin America from the professional historian's perspective.
Magical Reels
Title | Magical Reels PDF eBook |
Author | John King |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2000-09-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781859842331 |
On Latin American cinema.
Alton's Paradox
Title | Alton's Paradox PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Poppe |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2021-09-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1438485050 |
Alton's Paradox builds upon extensive archival and primary research, but uses a single text as its point of departure—a 1934 article by the Hungarian American cinematographer John Alton in the Hollywood-published International Photographer. Writing from Argentina, Alton paradoxically argues of cine nacional, "The possibilities are enormous, but not until foreign technicians will take the matter in their hands and with foreign organization will there be local industry." Nicolas Poppe argues that Alton succinctly articulates a line of thought commonly held across Latin America during the early sound period but little explored by scholars: that foreign labor was pivotal to the rise of national film industries. In tracking this paradox from Hollywood to Mexico to Argentina and beyond, Poppe reconsiders a series of notions inextricably tied to traditional film historiography, including authorship, (dis)continuation, intermediality, labor, National Cinema, and transnationalism. Wide-angled views of national film industries complement close-up analyses of the work of José Mojica, Alex Phillips, Juan Orol, Ángel Mentasti, and Tito Davison.