The Bronze Screen
Title | The Bronze Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Rosa Linda Fregoso |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781452901008 |
Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema. Rosa Linda Fregoso's The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American culture and history. The often violent impact of 'first' (U.S.) and 'third' (Mexico) world cultures and geographies is channeled through the very term Chicano/a as well as its cinematic representation. Fregoso's masterful critique brings out with great clarity the irony, paradox, and contradictions of such historical collisions. --Norma Alarcón, University of California, Berkeley
Shot in America
Title | Shot in America PDF eBook |
Author | Chon A. Noriega |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Mexican Americans in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781452904276 |
Chicano Images
Title | Chicano Images PDF eBook |
Author | Christine List |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
Chicano Cinema
Title | Chicano Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Gary D. Keller |
Publisher | Bilingual Review Press (AZ) |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Chicano Cinema: Research, Reviews, and Resources is the first book dedicated to the subject of both Chicano cinema and the depiction of Chicanos and other Latinos in U.S. and Mexican films. Contributors to the volume include Jesus Salvador Trevino. Sylvia Morales, David R. Maciel, Alejandro Morales, Carlos Cortes, and other notable scholars.
Hidden Chicano Cinema
Title | Hidden Chicano Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | A. Gabriel Meléndez |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-08-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0813561086 |
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.
Cine-Mexicans
Title | Cine-Mexicans PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Avant-Mier |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-08-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781792481451 |
Chicanos and Film
Title | Chicanos and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Chon A. Noriega |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
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.