Hidden Chicano Cinema : Film Dramas in the Borderlands /

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This book examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Melendez, A. Gabriel (Anthony Gabriel)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Americains d'origine mexicaine au cinema.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region > In motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. The book highlights "film moments" in this region's history including the "filmic turn" ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780813561080

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