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- ISSN: 1478-0488
- E-ISSN: 2040-0608
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Emilio Fernández ‘in Hollywood’: Mexico’s postwar inter-American Cinema, La perla/The Pearl (1946) and The Fugitive (1948)
- Source: Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (new title: Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas), Volume 7, Issue 2, Dec 2010, p. 81 - 100
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Abstract
Between 1945 and 1947 Emilio Fernández, the director of classics like Maria Candelaria (1943a) and Flor Silvestre (1943b) and Mexico’s most significant auteur, made two films with Hollywood studio RKO: La perla/The Pearl (1946a) and The Fugitive (Ford 1948a). Through analysis of these films and their production context, as well as insights gained from the production files, this article will attempt to shed new light on the role Fernández and these inter-American films played both in Hollywood’s postwar mission in the United States, Mexico and Latin America and in Mexico’s own national industry.
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