Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 23 July 2008

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous,

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 23 July 2008

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers, examining the ways in which these writers seized the opportunity to reassert their relevance in the rapidly

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
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• Release Date : 19 June 2017

Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America examines how cinema forged cultural connections between Latin American publics and film-exporting nations in the first half of the twentieth century. Predating today's transnational

• Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
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• Release Date : 07 June 2024

This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture.

• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 June 2023

Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In Modernity at the Movies, Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and

• Publisher : Northwestern University Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2017

Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and ’40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing,

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 March 2018

In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 2021

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

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 February 2019

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal language promoting mutual understanding and harmonious coexistence amongst disparate groups of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 17 March 2016

Typically, studies of early cinema’s relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for