La batalla por los Estudios Churubusco. El cine mexicano y Hollywood en las contiendas por el control de la producción fílmica para Latinoamérica (1942-1953)
- Autores: Francisco Peredo Castro
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 48, 2004, págs. 134-153
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Churubusco Studios Conflict. Mexican Cinemain the Battle for Controlof Latin American Film Production (1942-1953)
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Resumen
Built during the Second World War, the Churubusco Film Studios in Mexico City were designed to be the best equipped and most important studios of their kind in Latin America, at a time when the Mexican government considered the domestic film industry a State project, and collaboration with the U.S.
government in an effort to produce films favorable to the allied cause had a direct influence on the success of Aztec filmmaking both in Latin America and other markets. Yet once the blaze had died down, Hollywood majors attempted to take control of the studio complex, with a view to turning it into a subsidiary of the American movie mecca in Spanish-language film production.
Thus began a battle, almost diplomatic in nature, owing to Mexico’s resolve to defend its cultural heritage from the abstract ambitions of Hollywood.
