From Bananas to Buttocks : : The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture /

From Bananas to Buttocks : : The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture / / ed. by Myra Mendible.

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From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" rel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Fregoso, Rosa Linda,
Fuchs, Cynthia,
Goldman, Karen,
Lockhart, Tara,
Mendible, Myra,
Molina Guzmán, Isabel,
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances,
Nericcio, William A.,
Ogaz, Charla,
Rodríguez, Ana Patricia,
Rodríguez, Clara E.,
Rojas, Viviana,
Tolchin, Karen R.,
Valdivia, Angharad,
HerausgeberIn:
Mendible, Myra,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview
  • Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era
  • 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896–1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm
  • 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B’s
  • 3. Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on “Mexicans” in “American” Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening “Veronica”
  • Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media
  • 4. Celia’s Shoes
  • 5. Salma Hayek’s Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture
  • 6. Is Penélope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to “Latin” Beauties
  • 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing
  • 8. “There’s My Territory”: Shakira Crossing Over
  • 9. “Hey, Killer”: The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight
  • Section Three . Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity
  • 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbit
  • 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story
  • 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series
  • 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie
  • 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América
  • Contributors
  • Index

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