Laura A Serna

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age

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 tools ...

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age by Laura Isabel Serna (2014-03-28)

Pretty People: Movie Stars of the 1990s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling signifi...

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age