Latino image makers in Hollywood
Subtitle: performers, filmmakers and films since the 1960s
By: Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780786474325; 9781476614113
Subjects: Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry; Hispanic Americans in motion pictures
Description: "This book documents historical and socio-economic factors that created Latino and Latina images and stereotypes, beginning with the conquest of the American continent by Europeans followed by colonization and new nation-states in the early 1800s. These concepts were incorporated into literature of the 19th century and then into the motion picture art form in the 1890s"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of Latino stereotypes; title: The evolution of Latino film images (1894-1919); title: The 1960s; title: The 1970s; title: The 1980s; title: The 1990s; title: The 2000s.