Latino Images in Film : : Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance / / Charles Ramírez Berg.
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 th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Film and Media Studies Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE THEORY
- ONE. CATEGORIZING THE OTHER Stereotypes and Stereotyping
- TWO. STEREOTYPES IN FILM
- THREE. A CRASH COURSE ON HOLLYWOOD’S LATINO IMAGERY
- FOUR. SUBVERSIVE ACTS Latino Actor Case Studies
- PART TWO THE HOLLYWOOD VERSION Latino Representation in Mainstream Cinema
- FIVE. BORDERTOWN, THE ASSIMIL ATION NARRATIVE, AND THE CHICANO SOCIAL PROBLEM FILM
- SIX. THE MARGIN AS CENTER The Multicultural Dynamics of John Ford’s Westerns
- SEVEN. IMMIGRANTS, ALIENS, AND EXTRATERRESTRIALS Science Fiction’s Alien “Other” as (among Other Things) New Hispanic Imagery
- PART THREE LATINO SELF-REPRESENTATION
- BACKSTORY CHICANO AND LATINO FILMMAKERS BEHIND THE CAMERA
- EIGHT. EL GENIO DEL GÉNERO Mexican American Borderland Documentaries and Postmodernism
- NINE. ETHNIC INGENUITY AND MAINSTREAM CINEMA Robert Rodríguez’s Bedhead (1990) and El Mariachi (1993)
- TEN. THE MARIACHI AESTHETIC GOES TO HOLLYWOOD An Interview with Robert Rodríguez
- CONCLUSION: THE END OF STEREOTYPES?
- NOTES
- INDEX