Hidden Chicano Cinema : : Film Dramas in the Borderlands / / A. Gabriel Meléndez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Meléndez, A. Gabriel,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 13 illustrations

Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. The book highlights "film moments" in this region's history including the "filmic turn" ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a "distant locale" in the mind of most film audiences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Borderlands Cinema and the Proxemics of Hidden and Manifest Film Encounters -- 2. Ill Will Hunting (Penitentes) -- 3. A Lie Halfway around the World -- 4. Lives and Faces Plying through Exotica -- 5. Red Sky at Morning, a Borderlands Interlude -- 6. The King Tiger Awakens the Sleeping Giant of the Southwest -- 7. Filming Bernalillo: Post-Civil Rights Chicano Film Subjects -- 8. Toward a New Proxemics: Historical, Mythopoetic, and Autoethnographic Works -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author