Latino images in film : stereotypes, subversion, resistance /
The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady--these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for t...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2002
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| Vydání: | First edition |
| Edice: | Texas film and media studies series
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
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Latino images in film : stereotypes, subversion, resistance |
Obsah:
- Part 1, Theory
- 1, Categorizing the other : Stereotypes and stereotyping
- 2, Stereotypes in film
- 3, A crash course on Hollywood's latino imagery
- 4, Subversive acts : Latino actor case studies
- Part 2, The Hollywood version : Latino representation in mainstream cinema
- 5, Bordertown, the assimilation narrative, and the Chicano social problem film
- 6, The Margin as center : The multicultural dynamics of John Ford's westerns
- 7, 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
- 8, El genio del género : Mexican American borderland documentaries and postmodernism
- 9, Ethnic ingenuity and mainstream cinema : Robert Rodríguez's Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993)
- 10, The Mariachi aesthetic goes to Hollywood : an interview with Robert Rodríguez
- Conclusion, The end of stereotypes?