| Description |
xiii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Texas film and media studies series |
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Texas film and media studies series.
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| 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? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans in motion pictures.
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Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0292709064 alkaline paper |
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0292709072 paperback alkaline paper |
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