1st Edition

Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema

By Jason Borge Copyright 2008
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chapter One: The Lettered City of Angels

Chapter Two: Ex Machina: Hollywood, Latin America and the Cinematic Imaginary

Chapter Three: Celluloid Border: Mexican Revisions of Early Hollywood

Chapter Four: Tropic of Chaplin: Latin American Intellectuals and the Little Tramp Chapter Five: Hollywood Chronicles: Latin American Journalism and the Early Talkies

Chapter Six: Imperial Magic: Walt Disney in Latin America, 1930-1945

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jason Borge is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches courses on Latin American literature, cultural studies and film. His previous publications include Avances de Hollywood: crítica cinematográfica en Latinoamérica, 1915-1945 (Hollywood Advances: Latin American Film Criticism, 1915-1945), Beatriz Viterbo, 2005.