Poppe Alton's Paradox

Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8505-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American Cinema

Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poppe, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Alton's Paradox

2. Hollywood, City of Dreams: The First Spanish-Language Film Industry

3. "The Biggest Revelation of Hispanic Cinema": José Mojica's Transnational Stardom

4. Mexico City Dreams: The Emergence of Latin America's Most Important Film Industry

5. "The Best We Have in This Forsaken Place": Cinematography and Collaboration in Alex Phillips's Films with Arcady Boytler and Fernando de Fuentes

6. "But only one, Juan Orol, is fundamentally different from the rest": Orolian Melodrama and cursilería in the 1930s

7. In the Studios of Buenos Aires: The Rise and Fall of Argentina's Film Industry

8. "The Primary Champion of National Film": Ángel Mentasti and the Invention of Argentina Sono Film

9. "A Man Expert in the Needs of the Set": Tito Davison, an Éminence grise in the Argentine Film Industry of the Late 1930s and Early 1940s

10. Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Sound Film in Latin America

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Poppe is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College and the coeditor (with Rielle Navitski) of Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896–1960.