Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border. This item is unavailable.Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border

For more than a century, directors from both sides of the border have chosen Mexico as the location to create their cinematic art, leaving an indelible imprint on the imaginations of moviegoers and filmmakers worldwide. Now, for the first time, Made in Mexico: Hollywood South of the Border presents a comprehensive examination of more than one hundred Hollywood theatrical feature films made in Mexico between 1914 and the present day. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Made in Mexico examines how Hollywood films depicted Mexico and how Mexico represented itself in relation to the films shot on location. It pulls back the curtain on how Hollywood filmmakers influenced Mexican films and Mexican filmmakers influenced Hollywood. Listed chronologically and featuring cast, credits, synopsis, and contemporary reviews along with a production history for each entry, this book highlights the concept of crossing borders, in which artists from both nations collaborated with one another. Made in Mexico also provides a brief historical perspective on the aesthetics, economics, and politics of the film industries in each country, giving readers a glimpse of the external forces at play in the production of these films. With motion pictures permeating the cultural and historical landscape of both Mexico and the United States, this compulsively readable compendium demonstrates the far-reaching influences of the featured films on the popular culture of both nations.

LUIS I. REYES (El Montes, California) is nationally renowned as a scholar, author, archivist, and lecturer who specializes in the film history of ethnic minorities in the Hollywood film Industry. He is the author or co-author of several books on film, including Made in Paradise: Hollywood's Films of Hawaii and the South Seas, Pearl Harbor in the Movies, and most recently, The Hawaii Movie and Television Book (all co-authored with Ed Rampell); he is also the co-editor (with Peter Rubie) of Hispanics in Hollywood. JORGE RIVERO is the last of the leading men of Mexican cinema's golden age. Since making his film debut in 1964, Rivero has starred in more than 150 films in Mexico, Latin America, and Europe. Born and raised in Mexico City, the actor became the number-one box-office star in Mexican films for six years consecutively and a leading male sex symbol. Jorge appeared in American movies such as Rio Lobo with John Wayne, Soldier Blue with Candice Bergen, and The Last Hard Men with Charlton Heston and James Coburn. He has acted opposite such actresses as Isela Vega, Sasha Montenegro, and the legendary Ava Gardner. Rivero was a guest star on the epic twenty-six-hour NBC Universal Television miniseries adaptation of James H. Michener's Centennial. Jorge makes his residence in Hollywood with his wife, the former Betty Moran, a screenwriter, but maintains homes in his native Mexico. He remains active as a producer and actor on several ongoing media projects in both Mexico and the United States.