Latin American Icons : Fame across Borders /

"The faces of Che, Frida, Evita, Carmen Miranda, and other icons represent Latin America both to a global public that sees these faces constantly reproduced, and to Latin Americans themselves. They enter the circulation machines of Hollywood, or work as nostalgic definitions of a nation, or def...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: O'Connor, Patrick, 1958-, Niebylski, Dianna C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Popular culture.
National characteristics, Latin American.
Latin Americans.
Celebrities.
Latino-Americains > Biographies.
Culture populaire > Amerique latine.
Celebrites > Amerique latine > Biographies.
Latino-Americains.
Latin Americans > Biography.
Popular culture > Latin America.
Celebrities > Latin America > Biography.
Latin America.
Amerique latine > Biographies.
Latin America > Biography.
Biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reflections on Iconicity, Celebrity and Cultural Crossings / Patrick O'Connor and Dianna C. Niebylski
  • 1. Pancho Villa: Icon of Insurgency / Brian Gollnick
  • 2. Eva Peron: Excerpts from The Passion and the Exception / Beatriz Sarlo
  • 3. From Korda's Guerrillero Heroico to Global Brand: Ernesto "Che" Guevara / J.P. Spicer-Escalante
  • 4. Joaquin Murrieta and Lola Casanova: Shapeshifting Icons of the Contact Zone / Robert McKee Irwin
  • 5. Tango International: Carlos Gardel and the Breaking of Sound Barriers / Rielle Navitski
  • 6. Lupe Velez Before Hollywood: Mexico's First Iconic 'Modern Girl' / Kristy Rawson
  • 7. From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, a Trans(National) Star / Ana M. López
  • 8. Carmen Miranda as Cultural Icon / David William Foster
  • 9. Porfirio Rubirosa: Masculinity, Race, and the Jet-Setting Latin Male / Lizabeth Paravasini-Gebert and Eva Woods-Peiró
  • 10. The Face of a Nation: Norma Aleandro as Argentina's Post-Dictatorial Middle Class Icon / Janis Breckenridge and Becquer Medak-Seguin
  • 11. The Neoliberal Stars: Salma Hayek, Gael García Bernal and the Post-Mexican Film Icon / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
  • 12. Diego Armando Maradona: Life, Death and Resurrection (with One Act to Follow) / Juan Villoro
  • 13. Fetishizing Frida (excerpted from Devouring Frida [1999]) / Margaret Lindauer
  • Afterword. The Afterlife of Icons and the Future of Iconology / Patrick O'Connoor and Dianna C. Niebylski.

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