Chicano Images

Chicano Images
Author: Christine List
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 131792875X

Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano, or Mexican American, identity in films by chicanos. Part historiography, part film analysis, part ethnography, this book offers a compelling story of how Chicanos challenge, subvert and create their own popular portrayals of Chicanismo. Historical stereotypical images in Hollywood films are discussed alongside contemporary images portrayed by Hollywood studios and independent Chicano filmmakers. The author examines the way in which newer films "construct new representations of Chicano culture" and present a greater variety of images of Chicanos for mainstream audiences. Originally published in 1996, this authoritative volume provides a full history of the Chicano cultural movement beginning in the 1960s as well as information on the development of Mexican American film production.

Latino Images in Film

Latino Images in Film
Author: Charles Ramírez Berg
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0292783000

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 the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and filmmakers have actively subverted and resisted such stereotyping. In the first part of the book, Berg sets forth his theory of stereotyping, defines the classic stereotypes, and investigates how actors such as Raúl Julia, Rosie Pérez, José Ferrer, Lupe Vélez, and Gilbert Roland have subverted stereotypical roles. In the second part, he analyzes Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in three genres: social problem films, John Ford westerns, and science fiction films. In the concluding section, Berg looks at Latino self-representation and anti-stereotyping in Mexican American border documentaries and in the feature films of Robert Rodríguez. He also presents an exclusive interview in which Rodríguez talks about his entire career, from Bedhead to Spy Kids, and comments on the role of a Latino filmmaker in Hollywood and how he tries to subvert the system.

Chicano Images in Film

Chicano Images in Film
Author: Don Cardenas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1981
Genre: Mexican Americans in motion pictures
ISBN:

Chicanos and Film

Chicanos and Film
Author: Chon A. Noriega
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1992
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Chicanos and Film

Chicanos and Film
Author: Chon A. Noriega
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1992
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780816622184

To date, Chicano and Latino representation and participation in the American film industry have been largely ignored by film scholars. Genre criticism has been particularly oblivious to the presence of Chicanos in genres that have, at times, been constructed around a Chicano or Chicana 'other'--Westerns, social problems films, and the more recent urban violence film.

Projecting Ethnicity and Race

Projecting Ethnicity and Race
Author: Marsha J. Hamilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003-03-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0313052697

This comprehensive annotated bibliography reviews nearly 500 English-language studies published between 1915 and 2001 that examine the depiction of ethnic, racial, and national groups as portrayed in United States feature films from the inception of cinema through the present. Coverage includes books, reference works, book chapters within larger works, and individual essays from collections and anthologies. Concise annotations provide content summaries; unique features; major films and filmmakers discussed; and useful information on related titles, purpose, and intended readership. The studies included range from specialized scholarly treatises to popular illustrated books for general readers, making ^IProjecting Ethnicity and Race^R an invaluable resource for researchers interested in ethnic and racial film imagery. Entries are arranged alphabetically by title for easy access, while four separate indexes make the work simple to navigate by author, subject, gender, race, ethnic group, nationality, country, religion, film title, filmmaker, performer, or theme. Although the majority of studies published examine images of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians in film, the volume contains studies of groups including Africans, Arabs, the British, Canadians, South Sea Islanders, Tibetans, Buddhists, and Muslims—making it a unique reference book with a wide range of uses for a wide range of scholars.

Chicano Images

Chicano Images
Author: Jean Christine List
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1992
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Author: Richard T. Schaefer
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1753
Release: 2008-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412926947

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.