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Latin Looks : Images Of Latinas And Latinos In The U.s. Media.
What are ""Latin looks""? A Latin look may seem at first blush to be something that everyone recognizes-brunette, sensual, expressive, animated, perhaps threatening. But upon reflection, we realize that these are the images that are prevalent in the media, while the reality in La...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE Latinos on Television and in the News: Absent or Misrepresented; 1. Out of the Picture: Hispanics in the Media; 2. Hispanic Voices: Is the Press Listening?; 3. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment; PART TWO The Silver Screen: Stories and Stereotypes; 4. Visual Retrospective: Latino Film Stars; 5. CItizen Chicano: The Trials and Tittilations of Ethnicity in the American Cinema, 1935-1962; 6. Stereotyping in FIlms in General and of the Hispanic in Particular; 7. Chicanas in Film: History of an Image.
- 8. From Assimilation to Annihilation: Puerto Rican Images in U.S. Films9. West Side Story: A Puerto Rican Reading of ""America""; 10. Keeping it Reel? Films of the 1980s and 1990s; PART THREE Creating Alternative Images: ""The Others"" Present Themselves; 11. From the Margin to the Center: Puerto Rican Cinema in New York; 12. Unofficial Stories: Documentaries by Latinas and Latin American Women; 13. Type and Stereotype: Chicano Images in Film; 14. Two Film Reviews: My Family/Mi Familia and The Perez Family; 15. Hispanic-Oriented Media; PART FOUR Strategies for Change.
- 16. Promoting Analytical and Critical Viewing17. Questions and Reflections About the Readings in This Book; 18. What We Can Do; References; About the Book and Editor; About the Contributors; Index.