Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building(English, Paperback, Garcia-Crespo Naida)

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Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building(English, Paperback, Garcia-Crespo Naida) is written by Garcia-Crespo Naida and published by Bucknell University Press,U.S.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1684481171 (ISBN 10) and 9781684481170 (ISBN 13).

Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building focuses on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Naida Garcia-Crespo argues that Puerto Rico's position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures. This book aims to contribute to recently expanding discussions of cultural networks by analyzing how Puerto Rican cinema navigates the problems arising from the connection and/or disjunction between nation and state. The author argues that Puerto Rico's position as a stateless nation puts pressure on traditional conceptions of national cinema, which tend to rely on assumptions of state support or a bounded nation-state. She also contends that the cultural and business practices associated with early cinema reveal that transnationalism is an integral part of national identities and their development. Garcia-Crespo shows throughout this book that the development and circulation of cinema in Puerto Rico illustrate how the "national" is built from transnational connections. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.