Culture of Class Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946

Name: Culture of Class Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946
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ISBN: 9780822352648

ISBN-10: 0822352648

ISBN-13: 9780822352648

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew B. Karush

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In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with Hollywood cinema and jazz music shaped Argentina’s domestic cultural production in crucial ways. Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to appeal to consumers seduced by North American modernity. At the same time, the transnational marketplace encouraged these producers to compete by marketing “authentic” Argentine culture. Domestic filmmakers, radio and recording entrepreneurs, lyricists, musicians, actors, and screenwriters borrowed heavily from a rich tradition of popular melodrama. Although the resulting mass culture…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Matthew B. Karush is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author ofWorkers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912ndash;1930)and a co-editor ofThe New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina, also published by Duke University Press.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Class Formation in the Barrios



Competing in the Transnational Marketplace



Repackaging Popular Melodrama



Mass-Cultural Nation Building



Politicizing Populism


Epilogue: The Rise of the Middle Class, 1955-1976


Notes


Bibliography


Index