The first pornographic film would have been shot in Argentina. This theory, supported by several of the leading specialists on…
The Hale's Tours -movie theatres disguised as train wagons- emerged in 1905 in the USA and are a privileged phenomenon…
This article analyzes in a documented way the first years of the cinematic exhibition in Zacatecas. The information offered by…
While cosmopolitanism in silent Mexican film has been accurately explained as mimesis of European and US models, this article examines…
This article offers a panoramic description of the early development of the two main strands of the film business in…
This article aims to analyze the “Kinetoscópio Literário”, a series of short texts written by the Brazilian poet Elvira Gama…
This paper aims to reflect on the performing body of tango in early Argentinean cinema. Tango performances in cinema are…
Introduction to the special dossier "Compilation films on the Mexican Revolution" coordinated by Ángel Miquel y David M. J. Wood.
This essay examines the “film compilation” framed within early Mexican itinerant exhibition practices using the specific case study of entrepreneurs…
This article reconstructs the first critical accounts of the compilation documentary Memorias de un mexicano (Memories of a Mexican) following…
