Title Early Puerto Rican cinema and nation building : national sentiments, transnational realities, 1897-1940 / Naida García-Crespo

Published Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) : illustrations Series Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. Contents 1. Contexts for a National Cinema: Cultural, Political, and Economic Movements in Puerto Rico (1860-1951) -- Late Spanish Colonialism through 1898 -- Circumstances and Consequences of the U.S. Invasion -- Initial US. Congressional Rule and the Formation of Puerto Rican Identity -- Puerto Rican Conceptions of the Nation from 1930 Onward -- 2. Cinema Comes to Puerto Rico: Historical Uncertainties and Ambiguous Identities (1897-1909) -- Film Exhibition in Turn-of-the-Century Puerto Rico -- Rumors of War Footage -- Representing U.S. Colonial Puerto Rico -- 3. Stateless Nationhood, Transnationalism, and the Difficulties of Assigning Nationality: Rafael Colorado in Puerto Rican Historiography (1912-1916) -- Rafael Colorado, Film Exhibition, and the Transnational Circulation of Cultural Subjects -- Rafael Colorado as Cinematic Producer: Negotiating the Local and the Global -- Citizenship in a Stateless Nation: Constructing the Puerto Rican Subject -- 4. In the Company of the Elites: The Discourses and Practices of the Tropical Film Company (1916-1917) -- Inconsistencies in the Received Histories of the Tropical Film Company -- The Educational/Cultural Project of the Tropical Film Company -- The Tropical Film Company's Commercial Aims -- The End of the Beginning: The Tropical Film Company's Demise and Legacy -- 5. Perilous Paradise: American Assignment and Appropriation of "Puerto Ricanness" (1917-1915) -- From Big Stick to Good Neighbor: Puerto Rico as Test Site for American Foreign Policy -- Fictional Puerto Rico and Colonial Angst -- Puerto Rico's Commercial Production Model -- U.S. Cinema Falls in Love with the Tropics -- The MacManus/Pathe Productions -- Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount Comes to the Island -- Beyond Fiction: Other Aspects of the Puerto Rican Film Industry in the 1910s -- 6. Making the Nation Profitable: Industry-Centered Transnational Approaches to Filmmaking (1923-1940) -- The Film Enthusiast: The Career of Juan E. Viguie Cajas -- Romance tropical: Remaking the Dream -- The Film Impresario: The Career of Rafael Ramos Cobian -- Mis dos amores: The Union of Hollywood and Latin America -- Los hijos mandan: The Separation of Hollywood and Latin America -- The End of an Era: The Local Government as Producer Summary "National Sentiments, Transnational Realities focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring my work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue that Puerto Rico's position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures. This book aims to contribute to recently expanding discussions of cultural networks by analyzing how Puerto Rican cinema navigates the problems arising from the connection and/or disjunction between nation and state. I argue that Puerto Rico's position as a stateless nation puts pressure on traditional conceptions of national cinema, which tend to rely on assumptions of state support or a bounded nation-state. I also contend that the cultural and business practices associated with early cinema reveal that transnationalism is an integral part of national identities and their development. In other words, I show throughout this project that the development and circulation of cinema in Puerto Rico illustrate how the "national" is built from transnational connections"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 26, 2020) Subject Motion pictures -- Puerto Rico -- History Motion picture industry -- Puerto Rico -- History Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Puerto Rico National characteristics in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. PERFORMING ARTS / General Motion picture industry Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Social aspects National characteristics in motion pictures Puerto Rico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019017123 ISBN 9781684481217 168448121X

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