Mexico on Main Street : transnational film culture in Los Angeles before World War II /
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...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2015]
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| 丛编: | Latinidad.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14tqcsb |
| 总结: | 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 Str. |
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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813570778 0813570778 9780813570761 081357076X 9780813570754 0813570751 |