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Latino images in film : stereotypes, subversion, resistance /
The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady - these have been the images of Latinos in US cinema for more than a century. This volume develops a theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Texas film and media studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Theory
- Categorizing the other: stereotypes and stereotyping
- Stereotypes in film
- A crash course on Hollywood's Latino imagery
- Subversive Acts: Latino actor case studies
- Part 2: The Hollywood Version
- Latino representation in mainstream cinema
- Bordertown, the assimilation narrative, and the Chicano social problem film
- The margin as center: the multicultural dynamics of John Ford's Westerns
- Immigrants, aliens, and extraterrestrials: science fiction's alien "other" as (among other things) new Hispanic imagery
- Part 3: Latino Self-Representation
- Backstory: Chicano and Latino filmmakers behind the camera
- El Genio del Genero: Mexican American Borderland documentaries and postmodernism
- Ethnic ingenuity and mainstream cinema: Robert Rodríguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993)
- The Mariachi aesthetic goes to Hollywood: an interview with Robert Rodríguez
- Conclusion: the end of stereotypes?