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Alton's Paradox

Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Cinema in Latin America
  • Nicolas Poppe
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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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.

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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.

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"A book that film scholars, historians of Latin America, and students will find stimulating and innovative, Alton's Paradox is a provocative inquiry into the many meanings and definitions of a 'national film culture,' the essentially transnational character of cinema, and the persisting and everlasting relationship between Latin American cinema and Hollywood." — Hispanic American Historical Review


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The First Spanish-Language Film Industry
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José Mojica’s Transnational Stardom
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The Emergence of Latin America’s Most Important Film Industry
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Cinematography and Collaboration in Alex Phillips’s Films with Arcady Boytler and Fernando De Fuentes
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Orolian Melodrama and Cursilería in the 1930s
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The Rise and Fall of Argentina’s Film Industry
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Ángel Mentasti and the Invention of Argentina Sono Film
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Tito Davison, an Éminence grise in the Argentine Film Industry of the Late 1930s and Early 1940s
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9781438485058
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