Celluloid pueblo : Western Ways films and the invention of the postwar Southwest / Jennifer L. Jenkins.
Jenkins, Jennifer L., author.
2016
PN1999.W48 J47 2016
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Title Celluloid pueblo : Western Ways films and the invention of the postwar Southwest / Jennifer L. Jenkins.
Author Jenkins, Jennifer L., author.
ISBN 9780816502653 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816502653
9780816534531 (e-book)
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PN1999.W48 J47 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 384/.8065791
Summary Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest. Founded by Charles and Lucile Herbert in 1936, the Western Ways Features film service documented the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona, the Southwest, and northern Mexico for thirty years. Active during a period of profound growth and transformation, the Herberts created a dynamic visual record of the region; their archival films now serve as a time capsule of the Sunbelt in the mid-20th century. Chapters examine the Herberts' work on the first sound films in the Borderlands, Western Ways' subsequent rise to prominence in the promotion of the Southwest, and the filmic representation of Native and Mexican lifeways, Anglo ranching and leisure, Mexican missions and tourism, and the Borderlands postwar prosperity and progressivism. The story of Western Ways closely follows the boom and bust arc of the midcentury Southwest and its constantly evolving representations of an exotic but safe and domesticated frontier. Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface: Adventures in the archives; or, bringing film back to light
Acknowledgments
Establishing shots: Southwest borderlands as spectacle
Sights and sounds: Fox Movietone visits Arizona in 1929
Missions and Mexico
Framing race in the Arizona borderlands
From silver screen to small screen
Epilogue: fade to black
Appendix: complete Herbert filmography.

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