Title Making cinelandia : American films and Mexican film culture before the Golden Age / Laura Isabel Serna

Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents The Yanqui invasion -- U.S. motion picture companies go South of the border -- American movies, Mexican modernity: the cinema as a national space -- In Lola's house: fan discourse in the making of Mexican film culture -- Border crossings -- La virgen and La Pelona: film culture, border crossing, and the modern Mexican woman -- Denigrating pictures: censorship and the politics of U.S. film in greater Mexico -- Al cine: Mexican migrants go to the movies Summary In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate the country's cinemas, many of Mexico's cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui Invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In Making Cinelandia, Laura Isabel Serna contends that Hollywood films were not simply tools of cultural imperialism. Instead, they offered Mexicans on both sides of the border an imaginative and crucial means of participating in global modernity, even as these films and their producers and distributors frequently displayed anti-Mexican bias. Before the "Golden Age." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Motion pictures, Mexican -- History -- 20th century National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures, American -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Motion pictures Motion pictures, American Motion pictures, Mexican National characteristics, Mexican, in motion pictures Mexico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822376798 0822376792

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