From bananas to buttocks : the Latina body in popular film and culture /

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From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mendible, Myra, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hispanic American women > Public opinion.
Hispanic American women > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic American women in mass media.
Popular culture > United States.
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Femininity > United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
Américaines d'origine latino-américaine > Opinion publique.
Américaines d'origine latino-américaine > Identité ethnique.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Féminité > États-Unis.
Stéréotypes > États-Unis.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Ethnic relations
Femininity
Hispanic American women in mass media
Human body > Social aspects
Popular culture
Public opinion
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Massenmedien
Latina > Frau
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : embodying Latinidad : an overview / Myra Mendible
  • section 1. Case studies : silent and classic film era
  • 1. Film viewing in Latino communities, 1896-1934 : Puerto Rico as microcosm / Clara E. Rodríguez
  • 2. Lupe Vélez : queen of the B's / Rosa Linda Fregoso
  • 3. Lupe Vélez regurgitated : cautionary, indigestion-causing ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" toilets perpetrated while covetously screening "Veronica" / William A. Nericcio
  • section 2. Performing bodies : contemporary film and music media
  • 4. Celia's shoes / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
  • 5. Salma Hayek's Frida : transnational Latina bodies in popular culture / Isabel Molina Guzmán
  • 6. Is Penélope to J. Lo as culture is to nature? : Eurocentric approaches to "Latin" beauties / Angharad Valdivia
  • 7. Jennifer Lopez : the new wave of border crossing / Tara Lockhart
  • 8. "There's my territory" : Shakira crossing over / Cynthia Fuchs
  • 9. "Hey, killer" : the construction of a macho Latina, or the perils and enticements of Girlfight / Karen R. Tolchin
  • section 3. Sensational bodies : discourses of Latina femininity
  • 10. On the semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt / Charla Ogaz
  • 11. Disorderly bodies and discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González story / Isabel Molina Guzmán
  • 12. The body in question : the Latina detective in the Lupe Solano mystery series / Ana Patricia Rodríguez
  • 13. La princesa plástica : hegemonic and oppositional representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie / Karen Goldman
  • 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos : Latinas talk back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América / Viviana Rojas.

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