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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Hlavní autor: Berg, Charles Ramirez, 1947- (Autor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002
Vydání:First edition
Edice:Texas film and media studies series
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Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: 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?