The lettered City of Angels -- Ex machina : Hollywood, Latin America and the cinematic imaginary -- Celluloid border : Mexican revisions of early Hollywood -- Tropic of Chaplin : Latin American intellectuals and the Little Tramp -- Hollywood chronicles : Latin American journalism and the early talkies -- Imperial magic : Walt Disney in Latin America, 1930-1945
Summary
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, multivalent sign for established figures like Horacio Quiroga, Alejo Carpentier and Mário de Andrade, as well as less renowned writers like the Mexican Carlos Noriega Hope, the Chilean Vera Zouroff and the Cuban Guillermo Villarronda. Hollywood's arrival on the scene placed such writers in a bind, as many felt compelled to emulate the ""artistry"" of a medium dominated by a nation posing a symbo
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index