Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles

JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK is the director of the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive and a professor for critical studies at UCLA. He is the author of several books, including Making Images Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema.   LISA JARVINEN is an associate professor of history at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Rise of Spanish-Language Film Making: Out from Hollywood’s Shadow, 1929-1939 (Rutgers University Press).   COLIN GUNCKEL is an associate professor of screen arts and cultures, American culture, and Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II (Rutgers University Press).  

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Acknowledgements

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 García 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

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