Latin Looks: Images Of Latinas And Latinos In The U.s. Media

ISBN-13: 9780813327662 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 324 str.

Clara E. Rodriguez

Opis

What are "Latin looks"? A Latin look may seem at first blush to be something that everyone recognizes-brunette, sensual, expressive, animated, perhaps threatening. But upon reflection, we realize that these are the images that are prevalent in the media, while the reality in Latino communities is of a rich diversity of people and images. This book brings together a selection of the best, the most interesting, and the most analytically sophisticated writing on how Latinos have been portrayed in movies, television, and other media since the early years of the twentieth century and how images have changed over time in response to social and political change. Particular emphasis is given to representations of class, gender, color, race, and the political relationship between the United States and Latin America. Together the essays offer a corrective lens for interpreting how images are created, perpetuated, and manipulated.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Latinos on Television and in the News -- Out of the Picture: Hispanics in the Media -- Hispanic Voices -- Distorted Reality -- The Silver Screen -- Visual Retrospective -- Citizen Chicano: The Trials and Titillations of Ethnicity in the American Cinema, 1935-1992 -- Stereotyping in Films in Seneral and of the Hispanic in Particular -- Chicanas in Film -- From Assimilation to Annihilation -- West Side Story -- Keeping It Reel? Films of the 1980s and 1990s -- Creating Alternative Images -- From the Margin to the Center -- Unofficial Stories -- Type and Stereotype: Chicano Images in Film -- Two Film Reviews -- Hispanic-Oriented Media -- Strategies for Change -- Promoting Analytical and Critical Viewing -- Questions and Reflections About the Readings in This Book -- What We Can Do -- About the Book and Editor

O autorze

Clara E Rodriguez