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The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood´s Shadow, 1929-1939

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Silent film was universally understood and could be exported anywhere. But when “talkies” arrived, the industry began experimenting with dubbing, subtitling, and dual track productions in more than one language. Where language fractured the European film market, for Spanish-speaking countries and communities, it created new opportunities. In The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking, Lisa Jarvinen focuses specifically on how Hollywood lost ground in the lucrative international Spanish-speaking audience between 1929 and 1939.

Hollywood studios initially trained cadres of Spanish-speaking film professionals, created networks among them, and demonstrated the viability of a broadly conceived, transnational, Spanish-speaking film market in an attempt to forestall ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813552866
SKU
V9780813552866
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About Lisa Jarvinen
LISA JARVINEN is an assistant professor of history at La Salle University. She has published essays in The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film and in Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (1933–1945).

Reviews for The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood´s Shadow, 1929-1939
"Jarvinen has written a model piece of transnational history and she deserves applause for her smart, cogent examination of an important yet little-known aspect of film history."
Journal of American History
"Transnational cultural history at its best! Jarvinen unearths struggles among racist Hollywood executives, nationalist Latin Americans, and cosmopolitan film crews as they forged a new market for ... Read more

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