Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Alton's Paradox 1
6. Hollywood, City of Dreams 15
7. “The Biggest Revelation of Hispanic Cinema” 21
8. Mexico City Dreams 61
9. “The Best We Have in this Forsaken Place” 69
10. “But only One, Juan Orol, is Fundamentally Different from the Rest” 121
11. In the Studios of Buenos Aires 167
12. “The Primary Champion of National Film” 175
13. “A Man Expert in the Needs of the Set” 225
14. Foreign Film Workers and the Emergence of Industrial Sound Film in Latin America 253
15. Notes 263
16. Bibliography 335
17. Index 345