Latino images in film : stereotypes, subversion, resistance /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berg, Charles Ramírez, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, ©2002.
Series:Texas film and media studies series.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures.
Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses > Biography.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine au cinéma.
Actrices de cinéma américaines d'origine latino-américaine > Biographies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
Typisierung
Selbstdarstellung
Film
Mexiko
USA
Lateinamerikaner.
Biographies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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