Badmen, bandits, and folk heroes : the ambivalence of Mexican American identity in literature and film /

"Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes is a comparative study of the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early-twentieth-century adventure stories and movie Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers"--Jac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alonzo, Juan J. (Juan José), 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1900-1999
Mexican Americans in motion pictures.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Américains d'origine mexicaine au cinéma.
Stéréotypes au cinéma.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature.
Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
24.32 history of film art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
American literature.
Motion pictures.
Identität > Motiv
Literatur
Film
Mexican Americans.
Stereotypes.
Cinematography.
Literature.
United States.
USA
Chicanos <Motiv>
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ambivalence and contingency in the representation of Mexican identity
  • The greaser in Stephen Crane's Mexican stories and D.W. Griffith's early Westerns
  • Greasers, bandits, and revolutionaries : the conflation of Mexican identity representation, 1910-1920
  • The Western's ambivalence and the Mexican Badman
  • Stereotype, idealism, and contingency in the revolutionary's depiction
  • Gregorio Cortez in the Chicano/a imaginary and American popular culture
  • Reformulating hybrid identities and re-inscribing history in contemporary Chicano/a literature and film
  • Epilogue: The return of the stereotypical repressed : why stereotypes still matter.

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