John Sinclair's The Hollywood Of Latin America

In The Hollywood of Latin America John Sinclair outlines the various ethnic, economic, geographical, and industrial-commercial factors that, in conjunction, have led to Miami’s status as the “The Hollywood of Latin America”. The primary ethnic factors are the city’s strong Latin influence, bilingual character, and cultural pluralism, established largely by heavy migration from the Spanish Caribbean, making it attractive to Spanish speaking audience. Economic factors include, Miami’s status as a major port for Latin American trade and center of international banking, Florida being a right to work state making labor cheap, low income taxes, no state or local taxes on personal income, low costs of living, and relative economic security for Latin American businesses. …show more content…
Additionally, the efficiency of “US officialdom” (for example, in permitting location shooting), local and state government supported audiovisual incentives, and Miami’s imagery as a representation of the promised land for Latin America, may also be considered geographic factors which led to Miami’s prominence in media production. And, finally, the industrial-commercial factors that led to Miami’s prominence as a media producers are, the skilled bilingual hybrid workforce and urban environment that functions for the Spanish speakers of the Americas, its role as a geolinguistic node of production, distribution, and signal flows, its access to a variety of actors of different nationalities allowing its television industry to project a universal panethic identity for Hispanics based notions of a collective Latin American past, and the presence of production and distribution companies in Miami, which attracts production and technical personnel and support services, aiding production in the city and creating a cluster