American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age
by
Laura Isabel Serna
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
In the 1920s, as American films came to dominate Mexico's cinemas, many of its cultural and political elites feared that this "Yanqui invasion" would turn Mexico into a cultural vassal of the United States. In Making Cinelandia, Laura Isabel Serna contends that Hollywood films were not simply...